New English Translation

Genesis 31:30-34 New English Translation (NET)

30. Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

31. “I left secretly because I was afraid!” Jacob replied to Laban. “I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.

32. Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.” (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

33. So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.

34. (Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.