35. And she said to her father, Let it not be an occasion of anger in the eyes of my lord that I cannot rise up before thee, for it is with me after the manner of women. And he searched carefully, but did not find the teraphim.
36. And Jacob was angry, and he disputed with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my fault, what my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
37. Whereas thou hast explored all my baggage, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, and let them decide between us both.
38. These twenty years have I been with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten.
39. What was torn I have not brought to thee; I had to bear the loss of it: of my hand hast thou required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40. Thus it was with me: in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
41. I have been these twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
42. Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, been with me, it is certain thou wouldest have sent me away now empty. God has looked upon my affliction and the labour of my hands, and has judged last night.
43. And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flock is my flock, and all that thou seest is mine; but as for my daughters, what can I do this day to them, or to their sons whom they have brought forth?
44. And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be a witness between me and thee.
45. And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
46. And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones. And they took stones, and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap.
47. And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
48. And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed,
49. --and Mizpah; for he said, Let Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we shall be hidden one from another:
50. if thou shouldest afflict my daughters, or if thou shouldest take wives besides my daughters, --no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and thee!
51. And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar which I have set up between me and thee:
52. let this heap be witness, and the pillar a witness, that neither I pass this heap to go to thee, nor thou pass this heap and this pillar to come to me, for harm.