28. You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters. You’ve done a foolish thing.
29. I have the power to harm you. Last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything at all to Jacob.’
30. Now you have left for your father’s home because you were so homesick. But why did you steal my gods?”
31. Jacob answered Laban, “I left because I was afraid. I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.
32. If you find your gods, the one who has them will not be allowed to live. In the presence of our relatives, search as much as you want through what I have, and take what is yours.” (Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen the gods.)
33. So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two slaves. But he found nothing. He came out of Leah’s tent and went into Rachel’s tent.