16. All the wealth that God took away from our father really belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
17. Jacob proceeded to put his children and wives on camels,
18. and he drove off all his livestock and all the property he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
19. Now Laban was away shearing his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father’s household images.
20. Jacob had hoodwinked Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was going to flee.
21. Thus he fled with all that he had. Once he was across the Euphrates, he headed for the hill country of Gilead.
22. On the third day, word came to Laban that Jacob had fled.
23. Taking his kinsmen with him, he pursued him for seven days until he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
24. But that night God appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said to him: Take care not to say anything to Jacob.