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Genesis 31:42
here.' ? He said, 'Look up and watch all the and my daughters good-bye. Now you've striped, speckled, and spotted male goats acted like a fool, 29 and I have the power mounting the flock. I've seen everything to punish you. However, your father's God that Laban is doing to you. I am the God told me yesterday, 'Be careful and don't say of Bethel, where you anointed a sacred pil- anything hastily to Jacob one way or the lar and where you made a solemn promise other.' 30 You've rushed off now because you to me. Now, get up and leave this country missed your father's household so much, and go back to the land of your relatives.”” but why did you steal my gods?”
Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is 31 Jacob responded to Laban, “I was afraid there any share or inheritance left for us in and convinced myself that you would take our father's household? 15 Doesn't he think your daughters away from me. 32Whomof us as foreigners since he sold us and has ever you find with your divine images won't even used up the payment he received for live. Identify whatever I have that is yours, us? 16 All of the wealth God took from our in front of your brothers, and take it.” Jacob father belongs to us and our children. Now, didn't know that Rachel had stolen them. do everything God told you to do."
33 Laban went into Jacob's tent, Leah's tent, 1750 Jacob got up, put his sons and wives and her two servants' tent and didn't find on the camels, 18 and set out with all of his them. livestock and all of his possessions that So he left Leah's tent and went into Rahe had acquiredi in Paddan-aram in order chel's. 34Now Rachel had taken the divine to return to his father Isaac in the land of images and put them into the camel's sadCanaan. ''Now, while Laban was out shear- dlebag and sat on them. Laban felt around ing his sheep, Rachel stole the household's in the whole tent but couldn't find them. divine images that belonged to her father. 35 Rachel said to her father, “Sir, don't be 20 Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the angry with me because I can't get up for Aramean by not sending word to him that you; I'm having my period.” He searched he was leaving. 21So Jacob and his entire but couldn't find the divine images. household left. He got up, crossed the river, 36 Jacob was angry and complained and set out directly for the mountains of to Laban, “What have I done wrong and Gilead.
what's my crime that you've tracked me 22 Three days later, Laban found out that down like this? 37 You've now felt through Jacob had gone, 23 so Laban took his broth- all of my baggage, and what have you found ers with him, chased Jacob for seven days, from your household's belongings? Put it in and caught up with him in the mountains front of our relatives, and let them decide of Gilead. 24 That night, God appeared to between us. 38 For these twenty years I've Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, been with you, your female sheep and goats “Be careful and don't say anything hastily haven't miscarried, and I haven't eaten your to Jacob one way or the other."
flock's rams. 39When animals were killed, I 25Laban reached Jacob after Jacob had didn't bring them to you but took the loss pitched his tent in the mountains. So Laban myself. You demanded compensation from and his brothers also pitched theirs in the me for any animals poached during the day mountains of Gilead. 26 Laban said to Jacob, or night. 40 The dry heat consumed me dur“What have you done? You have deceived ing the day, and the frost at night; I couldn't me and taken off with my daughters as if sleep. “I've now spent twenty years in your they were prisoners of war. 27 Why did you household. I worked for fourteen years leave secretly, deceiving me, and not letting for your two daughters and for six years me know? I would've sent you off with a cel- for your flock, and you changed my pay ebration, with songs and tambourines and ten times. 42 If the God of my father—the harps. 28 You didn't even let me kiss my sons God of Abraham and the awesome one of
O'LXX; MT includes he had acquired, the livestock in his possession.