New English Translation

Genesis 31:15-20 New English Translation (NET)

15. Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!

16. Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

17. So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.

18. He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

19. While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

20. Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.