Genesis 31:26-42
26And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have atricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword? 27Why did you flee secretly band trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre? 28And why did you not permit me cto kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly. 29It is din my power to do you harm. But the eGod of your ▼▼The Hebrew for your is plural here
father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, geither good or bad.’ 30And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house, but why did you hsteal my gods?” 31Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force. 32 iAnyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. 33So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s. 34Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel’s saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them. 35And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot jrise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household gods.
36Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? 37For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and kyour kinsmen, that they may decide between us two. 38These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. 39What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. lFrom my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41These twenty years I have been in your house. mI served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and nyou have changed my wages ten times. 42 oIf the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the pFear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. qGod saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rrebuked you last night.”
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