After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Laban went off to shear his sheep because they were a three-day journey removed from him.

Jacob saw that Laban was going off to shear his sheep and summoned Leah and Rachel. He spoke tenderly with them so that they would come with him to the land of Canaan.

For he told them how he had seen everything in a dream and everything about his statement to him that he would return to his father’s house. They said: ‘We will go with you wherever you go’.

Jacob blessed the God of his father Isaac and the God of his grandfather Abraham. He set about loading up his wives and his children and took all his possessions. After he had crossed the river, he reached the land of Gilead. But Jacob had concealed his plan from Laban and had not told him.

During the seventh year of the fourth week [2135] Jacob returned to Gilead on the twenty-first day of the first month. Laban pusued him and found Jacob on the mountain of Gilead on the thirteenth (day) in the third month.

But the Lord did not allow him to harm Jacob because he had appeared to him at night in a dream, and Laban told Jacob.

On the fifteenth of those days Jacob prepared a banquet for Laban and all who had come with him. That day Jacob swore to Laban and Laban to Jacob that neither would commit an offense against the other on the mountain of Gilead with bad intentions.

There he made a mound as a testimony; for this reason that place is named the mound of testimony after this mound.

But at first the land of Gilead was named the land of Rafaem because it was the land of the Rafaim. The Rafaim were born, giants whose heights were ten cubits, nine cubits, eight cubits, and (down) to seven cubits.

The places where they lived (extended) from the land of the Ammonites as far as Mt. Hermon. Their royal centers were Karnaim, Ashtarot, Edrei, Misur, and Beon.

The Lord destroyed them because of the evil things they did, for they were very wicked. The Amorites — evil and sinful — lived in their place. Today there is no nation that has matched all their sins. They no longer have length of life on the earth.

Jacob sent Laban away, and he went to Mesopotamia, to the eastern country. But Jacob returned to the land of Gilead.

He crossed the Jabbok on the eleventh of the ninth month, and on the same day his brother Esau came to him. They were reconciled with one another. Then he went from him to the land of Seir, while Jacob lived in tents.

In the first year of the fifth week during this jubilee [2136] he crossed the Jordan. He settled on the other side of the Jordan and tended his sheep from the sea of Fahahat as far as Bethshan, Dothan, and the forest of Akrabbim.

He sent his father Isaac some of all his possessions; clothing, food, meat, things to drink, milk, butter, cheese, and some dates from the valley.

To his mother Rebecca, too, (he sent goods) four times per year — between the seasons of the months, between plowing and harvest, between autumn and the rain(y season), and between winter and spring — to Abraham’s tower.

For Isaac had returned from the well of the oath, had gone up to the tower of his father Abraham, and had settled there away from his son Esau,

because, at the time when Jacob went to Mesopotamia, Esau had married Mahalath, Ishmael’s daughter. He had gathered all his father’s flocks and his wives and had gone up and lived in Mt. Seir. He had left his father Isaac alone at the well of the oath.

So Isaac had gone up from the well of the oath and settled at the tower of his father Abraham in the mountain of Hebron.

From there Jacob would send everything that he was sending to his father and mother from time to time — everything they needed. Then they would bless Jacob with all their mind and with all their being.