16. For all the wealth that God has taken away from our father, it belongs to us and to our sons. So now, all that God has said to you, do.”
17. Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on the camels.
18. And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
19. Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father.
20. And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he intended to flee.
21. Then he fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphrates and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.
22. And on the third day it was told to Laban that Jacob had fled.
23. Then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after him, a seven-day journey, and he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
24. And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Take care that you not speak with Jacob, whether good or evil.”
25. And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his kinsmen pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead.
26. Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done that you tricked me and have carried off my daughters like captives of the sword?
27. Why did you hide your intention to flee and trick me, and did not tell me so that I would have sent you away with joy and song and tambourine and lyre?
28. And why did you not give me opportunity to kiss my grandsons and my daughters goodbye? Now you have behaved foolishly by doing this.
29. It is in my power to do harm to you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night saying, ‘Take care from speaking with Jacob, whether good or evil.’
30. Now, you have surely gone because you desperately longed for the house of your father, but why did you steal my gods?”
31. Then Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought, ‘Lest you take your daughters from me by force.’
32. But with whomever you find your gods, he shall not live. In the presence of your kinsmen now identify what is with me that is yours and take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.