New International Reader's Version

Genesis 31:15-20 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

15. Doesn't our father think of us as strangers? First he sold us. Now he has used up what he was paid for us.

16. All of the wealth God took away from our father really belongs to us and our children. So do what God has told you to do."

17. Then Jacob put his children and wives on camels.

18. He drove all of his livestock ahead of him. He also took with him everything he had gotten in Paddan Aram. He left to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

19. Laban had gone to clip the wool from his sheep. While he was gone, Rachel stole the statues of family gods that belonged to her father.

20. And that's not all. Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean. He didn't tell him he was running away.