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But God had come to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, "Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad."
And Laban said to Jacob: "What have you done, that you have stolen away unknown to me, and carried away my daughters like captives taken with the sword?
"And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have done foolishly in so doing.
Then Jacob was angry and rebuked Laban, and Jacob answered and said to Laban: "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me?
He made its pillars of silver, Its support of gold, Its seat of purple, Its interior paved with love By the daughters of Jerusalem.
Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you."
Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "Is there still any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
"For all these riches which God has taken from our father are really ours and our children's; now then, whatever God has said to you, do it."
"Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and not tell me; for I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with timbrel and harp?
"And now you have surely gone because you greatly long for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?"
Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain.
Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has acquired all this wealth."
and said to them, "I see your father's countenance, that it is not favorable toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
"Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.
And Jacob stole away, unknown to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.
"There I was! In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.
Then Jacob said to his brethren, "Gather stones." And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.
"If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us - see, God is witness between you and me!"
So he fled with all that he had. He arose and crossed the river, and headed toward the mountains of Gilead.