16. All this wealth which God has taken from our father belongs to us and to our children. Do whatever God has told you.”
17-18. So Jacob got ready to go back to his father in the land of Canaan. He put his children and his wives on the camels, and drove all his flocks ahead of him, with everything that he had acquired in Mesopotamia.
19. Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and during his absence Rachel stole the household gods that belonged to her father.