Genesis · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Genesis 31 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Jacob oyó que los hijos de Labán decían: «Jacob se ha llevado todo lo que era de nuestro padre, y con lo que era de nuestro padre ha conseguido toda esta riqueza».
1 Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”
2 Jacob también vio que Labán ya no lo trataba como antes.
2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
3 Entonces el Señor dijo a Jacob: «Vuelve a la tierra de tus padres y a tu familia, y yo estaré contigo».
3 Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
4 Jacob mandó llamar a Raquel y a Lea al campo, donde estaba su rebaño.
4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
5 Les dijo: «Veo que su padre ya no me trata como antes, pero el Dios de mi padre ha estado conmigo.
5 and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
6 Ustedes saben que he trabajado con todas mis fuerzas para su padre.
6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
7 Sin embargo, su padre me ha engañado y ha cambiado mi salario diez veces. Pero Dios no le permitió hacerme daño.
7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
8 Si él decía: “Las crías manchadas serán tu pago”, entonces todo el rebaño tenía crías manchadas. Y si decía: “Las rayadas serán tu pago”, entonces todo el rebaño tenía crías rayadas.
8 If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
9 Así Dios le quitó el ganado a su padre y me lo dio a mí.
9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
10 Cuando los animales se apareaban, tuve un sueño. Vi que los machos que cubrían a las hembras eran rayados, manchados y moteados.
10 During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
11 En el sueño, el ángel de Dios me llamó: “¡Jacob!”. Yo respondí: “Aquí estoy”.
11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’
12 Él dijo: “Mira bien. Todos los machos que cubren a las hembras son rayados, manchados y moteados, porque he visto todo lo que Labán te ha hecho.
12 He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
13 Yo soy el Dios de Betel, donde ungiste una piedra como pilar y me hiciste un voto. Ahora levántate, sal de esta tierra y vuelve a la tierra donde naciste”».
13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”
14 Raquel y Lea respondieron: «¿Nos queda alguna parte o herencia en la casa de nuestro padre?
14 Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
15 ¿No nos trata como extranjeras? Nos vendió y además se ha gastado lo que recibió por nosotras.
15 Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.
16 Toda la riqueza que Dios le quitó a nuestro padre es nuestra y de nuestros hijos. Haz, pues, todo lo que Dios te ha dicho».
16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”
17 Entonces Jacob hizo subir a sus hijos y a sus mujeres sobre los camellos.
17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
18 Puso en marcha todo su ganado y todos los bienes que había conseguido en Padán-aram, y se preparó para ir a Isaac, su padre, en la tierra de Canaán.
18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
19 Labán había ido a esquilar sus ovejas. Mientras tanto, Raquel robó los ídolos de la casa de su padre.
19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
20 Jacob salió en secreto sin avisar a Labán el arameo.
20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
21 Huyó con todo lo que tenía, cruzó el río y se dirigió hacia la región montañosa de Galaad.
21 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
22 Al tercer día, Labán recibió la noticia de que Jacob había huido.
22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
23 Tomó consigo a sus parientes, lo persiguió durante siete días y lo alcanzó en la región montañosa de Galaad.
23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
24 Pero Dios vino a Labán el arameo en un sueño durante la noche y le dijo: «Ten cuidado de no decir a Jacob nada bueno ni malo».
24 God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
25 Cuando Labán alcanzó a Jacob, Jacob había levantado su tienda en la región montañosa. Labán y sus parientes también levantaron sus tiendas allí, en Galaad.
25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
26 Labán dijo a Jacob: «¿Qué has hecho? Te fuiste en secreto y te llevaste a mis hijas como si fueran prisioneras de guerra.
26 Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
27 ¿Por qué huiste a escondidas y no me avisaste? Yo podría haberte despedido con alegría, cantos y música.
27 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
28 Ni siquiera me dejaste besar a mis nietos y a mis hijas. Hiciste una tontería.
28 and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.
29 Tengo poder para hacerte daño, pero anoche el Dios de tu padre me dijo: “Ten cuidado de no decir a Jacob nada bueno ni malo”.
29 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
30 Entiendo que te hayas ido porque deseas volver a la casa de tu padre. Pero ¿por qué robaste mis dioses?».
30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”
31 Jacob respondió a Labán: «Tuve miedo de que me quitaras a tus hijas por la fuerza.
31 Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
32 Si encuentras tus dioses con alguien de los que están conmigo, esa persona morirá. Delante de nuestros parientes, busca lo que sea tuyo y tómalo». Jacob no sabía que Raquel los había robado.
32 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
33 Labán entró en la tienda de Jacob, en la de Lea y en las de las dos siervas, pero no encontró nada. Luego salió de la tienda de Lea y entró en la de Raquel.
33 Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
34 Raquel había tomado los ídolos y los había puesto dentro de la silla del camello, y estaba sentada sobre ellos. Labán registró toda la tienda, pero no los encontró.
34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.
35 Raquel dijo a su padre: «No se enoje mi señor porque no puedo levantarme delante de usted. Estoy con la menstruación». Así Labán buscó, pero no encontró los ídolos.
35 She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.
36 Entonces Jacob se enojó y discutió con Labán. Le dijo: «¿Qué falta he cometido? ¿Qué pecado he hecho para que me persigas con tanta furia?
36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
37 Has registrado todas mis cosas. ¿Qué encontraste que sea tuyo? Ponlo aquí delante de mis parientes y de los tuyos, y que ellos juzguen entre nosotros.
37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
38 Durante estos veinte años he estado contigo. Tus ovejas y tus cabras no perdieron sus crías, y nunca comí un carnero de tus rebaños.
38 “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
39 Nunca te llevé un animal despedazado por una fiera. Yo mismo pagaba la pérdida. Tú me hacías responsable de todo lo robado, de día o de noche.
39 That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40 De día me consumía el calor y de noche el frío, y muchas veces no podía dormir.
40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
41 Así pasé veinte años en tu casa. Trabajé catorce años por tus dos hijas y seis años por tu ganado, y cambiaste mi salario diez veces.
41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
42 Si el Dios de mi padre, el Dios de Abraham y el Dios a quien Isaac teme, no hubiera estado conmigo, seguramente me habrías enviado con las manos vacías. Pero Dios vio mi sufrimiento y el trabajo de mis manos, y anoche te reprendió».
42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
43 Labán respondió a Jacob: «Estas mujeres son mis hijas, estos niños son mis nietos y estos rebaños son míos. Todo lo que ves es mío. Pero ¿qué puedo hacer hoy contra mis hijas o contra los hijos que ellas han tenido?
43 Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
44 Ven, hagamos un pacto tú y yo, y que sirva como testimonio entre nosotros».
44 Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”
45 Entonces Jacob tomó una piedra y la levantó como pilar.
45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
46 Luego dijo a sus parientes: «Recojan piedras». Ellos recogieron piedras e hicieron un montón, y allí comieron.
46 Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
47 Labán llamó al montón Jegar-sahaduta, y Jacob lo llamó Galaad.
47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 Labán dijo: «Este montón de piedras es hoy testigo entre tú y yo». Por eso fue llamado Galaad.
48 Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
49 También fue llamado Mizpa, porque Labán dijo: «Que el Señor nos vigile cuando estemos lejos el uno del otro.
49 and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
50 Si maltratas a mis hijas o tomas otras mujeres además de ellas, aunque nadie esté con nosotros, recuerda que Dios es testigo entre tú y yo».
50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
51 Labán dijo además a Jacob: «Mira este montón de piedras y este pilar que he puesto entre tú y yo.
51 Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
52 Este montón y este pilar serán testigos de que yo no los cruzaré para hacerte daño, y tú tampoco los cruzarás para hacerme daño.
52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
53 Que el Dios de Abraham y el Dios de Nacor, el Dios de sus padres, juzgue entre nosotros». Entonces Jacob juró por el Dios a quien temía su padre Isaac.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
54 Jacob ofreció un sacrificio en la montaña e invitó a sus parientes a comer. Comieron y pasaron la noche allí.
54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
55 A la mañana siguiente, Labán se levantó temprano, besó a sus nietos y a sus hijas, los bendijo y regresó a su tierra.
55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
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Jacob
He wrestled with God through the night and rose as Israel, father of twelve tribes.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25–35; 46–49
Rachel
Jacob's beloved wife, mother of Joseph and Benjamin, who died in childbirth.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 29-35
Cross references (51)
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- 1 Ecclesiastes 4:4; Psalm 17:14; Proverbs 27:4; Proverbs 14:30; 1 Peter 1:24
- 2 Daniel 3:19; 1 Samuel 18:9–11; Genesis 4:5; Genesis 30:27; 1 Samuel 19:7
- 3 Genesis 28:15; Hebrews 13:5; Genesis 32:9; Genesis 31:13; Psalm 50:15
- 5 Genesis 31:2–3; Genesis 31:53; Genesis 48:15; Genesis 31:42; Genesis 32:9
- 6 Genesis 30:29; Ephesians 6:5–8; Colossians 3:22–25; Genesis 31:38–42; Titus 2:9–10
- 7 Zechariah 8:23; Genesis 31:29; Genesis 31:41; Nehemiah 4:12; Numbers 14:22
- 8 Genesis 30:32
- 9 Genesis 31:1; Genesis 31:16; Proverbs 13:22; Matthew 20:15; Esther 8:1–2
- 10 Deuteronomy 13:1; Genesis 20:6; Numbers 12:6; 1 Kings 3:5; Genesis 31:24
- 11 Isaiah 58:9; Genesis 31:13; Genesis 48:15–16; Genesis 18:17; 1 Samuel 3:16
- 12 Exodus 3:7; Genesis 31:42; Deuteronomy 24:15; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Ephesians 6:9
- 13 Genesis 31:3; Genesis 32:9; Genesis 28:12–22; Genesis 35:7
- 14 Ruth 4:11; Genesis 2:24; Genesis 29:29; Genesis 29:24
- 15 Genesis 29:15–20; Genesis 29:27–30; Nehemiah 5:8; Genesis 30:26; Exodus 21:7–11
- 16 Genesis 31:9; Genesis 30:35–31:1; Psalm 45:10
- 17 Genesis 24:61; 1 Samuel 30:17; Genesis 24:10
- 18 Genesis 27:41; Genesis 28:21; Genesis 27:1–2; Genesis 35:27–29
- 19 1 Samuel 19:13; Hosea 3:4; Genesis 31:30; Ezekiel 21:21; Genesis 35:2
- 21 2 Kings 12:17; Joshua 24:2–3; Genesis 37:25; Genesis 15:18; Luke 9:51–53
- 22 Exodus 14:5–31; Genesis 30:36; Job 5:12–13
- 23 Genesis 13:8; Exodus 2:11; Exodus 2:13; Genesis 24:27
- 24 Genesis 24:50; Genesis 20:3; Genesis 31:29; Numbers 24:13; Genesis 31:42
- 25 Genesis 33:18; Hebrews 11:9; Genesis 12:8
- 26 1 Samuel 30:2; Genesis 4:10; Genesis 31:36; 1 Samuel 17:29; Genesis 2:24
- 27 Exodus 15:20; Genesis 31:3–5; Proverbs 26:23–26; Job 21:11–14; Genesis 31:20–21
- 28 Genesis 31:55; 1 Kings 19:20; Ruth 1:14; Acts 20:37; Genesis 31:24
- 29 Genesis 31:42; Genesis 31:53; Joshua 24:2–3; Genesis 31:24; Genesis 28:13
- 30 Jeremiah 10:11; Genesis 31:19; Judges 18:24; 1 Samuel 5:2–6; 2 Samuel 5:21
- 31 Proverbs 29:25; Genesis 31:26–27; Genesis 20:11
- 32 Genesis 31:19; Genesis 31:23; 1 Samuel 12:3–5; Genesis 44:9–12; Genesis 31:30
- 33 Genesis 24:28; Genesis 24:67
- 34 Genesis 31:19; Genesis 31:17
- 35 Leviticus 19:32; Exodus 20:12; Ephesians 6:1; 1 Kings 2:19; Genesis 18:11–12
- 36 Ephesians 4:26; Genesis 30:2; 2 Kings 5:11; Mark 3:5; Numbers 16:15
- 37 1 Peter 2:12; Hebrews 13:18; 1 Corinthians 6:4–5; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; Joshua 7:23
- 38 Deuteronomy 28:4; Ezekiel 34:2–4; Exodus 23:26; Genesis 30:27; Genesis 30:30
- 39 Exodus 22:10–13; Leviticus 22:8; Luke 2:8; Exodus 22:31; John 10:12–13
- 40 Psalm 78:70–71; Luke 2:8; Exodus 2:19–22; John 21:15–17; Hebrews 13:7
- 41 Genesis 31:7; Genesis 31:38; 2 Corinthians 11:26; Genesis 30:33–40; 1 Corinthians 15:10
- 42 Psalm 31:7; Isaiah 8:13; Genesis 31:53; Genesis 31:29; Genesis 31:24
- 44 Joshua 24:25–27; 1 Samuel 20:14–17; Genesis 15:18; Joshua 22:27; Deuteronomy 31:19
- 45 Genesis 28:18–22
- 46 Ecclesiastes 3:5; Genesis 31:37; Genesis 31:32; Joshua 4:5–9; Joshua 7:26
- 47 Hebrews 12:1
- 48 Joshua 24:27; Joshua 13:8–9; Genesis 31:23; Deuteronomy 3:16; Deuteronomy 2:36
- 49 Judges 11:29; Judges 10:17; 1 Samuel 7:5–6; Judges 11:11; 1 Kings 15:22
- 50 Jeremiah 42:5; Jeremiah 29:23; Micah 1:2; Judges 11:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:5
- 52 Genesis 31:48; Genesis 31:44–45
- 53 Genesis 31:42; Genesis 16:5; Exodus 3:6; Joshua 24:2; Genesis 11:24–29
- 54 Exodus 18:12; Genesis 26:30; 2 Samuel 3:20–21; Genesis 21:8; Genesis 37:25
- 55 Genesis 31:28; Deuteronomy 23:5; Genesis 30:25; Genesis 18:33; Proverbs 16:7
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For not only did not the nations in this life serve this Jacob; but even after he had received the blessing, he himself going forth [from his home], served his uncle Laban the Syrian for twenty years; and not only was he not made lord of his brother, but he did himself bow down before his brother Esau, upon his …
In fact, "a testament" is a name given in the Scriptures not only to that which is of no avail till the death of the testators, but every covenant and decree they used to call a testament. For Laban and Jacob made a testament, which was certainly to have force between the living; and such cases without number are read …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
Moreover, Joshua, the son of Nun, even set up a stone as witness of his words (already a heap somewhere had been called a witness by Jacob), for he says, "Behold this stone shall be a witness unto you this day to the end of days, when ye lie to the Lord our God," perhaps believing that by God's power …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)