Genesis 31:17-35

17Then Jacob stood up and put his children and his wives on camels; 18and he drove away all his livestock and all his property which he had acquired, the livestock he possessed which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, 1to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac. 19Laban had gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stole the 23household idols that were her father’s. 20And Jacob 4deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing. 21So he fled with all that he had; and he got up and crossed the Euphrates River, and set 5out for the hill country of 6Gilead.

22When Laban was informed on the third day that Jacob had fled, 23he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him a distance of seven days’ journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead. 24However, 7God came to Laban the Aramean in a 8dream of the night and said to him, “910Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

25And Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen camped in the hill country of Gilead. 26Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done 11by deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword? 27Why did you flee secretly and 12deceive me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with 13tambourine and with 14lyre; 28and did not allow me 15to kiss my 16grandchildren and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly. 29It is in 17my power to do you harm, but 18the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘1920Be careful not to speak either good or bad to Jacob.’ 30Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house; but why did you steal 21my gods?” 31Then Jacob replied to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force. 3222The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our relatives 23point out what is yours 24among my belongings and take it for yourself.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

33So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two slave women, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent. 34Now Rachel had taken the 25household idols and put them in the camel’s saddlebag, and she sat on them. So Laban searched through all the tent, but did not find them. 35And she said to her father, “May my lord not be angry that I cannot 26stand in your presence, because the 27way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the 2829household idols.