Gen 31:27 | NETfull | STEP | Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?

Genesis 31:27

27 Why did you run away secretly ^{▼▼ Heb “Why did you hide in order to flee?” The verb “hide” and the infinitive “to flee” form a hendiadys, the infinitive becoming the main verb and the other the adverb: “flee secretly.”} and deceive me? ^{▼▼ Heb “and steal me.”} Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps? ^{▼▼ Heb “And [why did] you not tell me so I could send you off with joy and with songs, with a tambourine and with a harp?”}