14. Rachel and Leah answered Jacob, “Our father has nothing to give us when he dies.
15. He treated us like strangers. He sold us to you, and then he spent all the money that should have been ours.
16. God took all this wealth from our father, and now it belongs to us and our children. So you should do whatever God told you to do.”
17. So Jacob prepared for the trip. He put his children and his wives on camels.
18. Then they began traveling back to the land of Canaan, where his father lived. All the flocks of animals that Jacob owned walked ahead of them. He carried everything with him that he had gotten while he lived in Paddan Aram.
19. While Laban was gone to cut the wool from his sheep, Rachel went into his house and stole the false gods that belonged to her father.
20. Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean. He did not tell Laban he was leaving.
21. Jacob took his family and everything he owned and left quickly. They crossed the Euphrates River and traveled toward the hill country of Gilead.
22. Three days later Laban learned that Jacob had run away.
23. So he gathered his men together and began to chase Jacob. After seven days Laban found Jacob near the hill country of Gilead.
24. That night God came to Laban in a dream and said, “Be careful! Be careful of every word you say to Jacob.”