16. But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.
17. Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.
18. And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father to the land of Chanaan.
19. At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.
20. And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he was flying away.
21. And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,
22. It was told Laban on the third day that Jacob fled.
23. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.