Genesis 31:25-35

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 1by deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword? 27Why did you flee secretly and 2deceive me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with 3tambourine and with 4lyre; 28and did not allow me 5to kiss my 6grandchildren and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly. 29It is in 7my power to do you harm, but 8the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘910Be 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 11my gods?” 31Then Jacob replied to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force. 3212The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our relatives 13point out what is yours 14among 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 15household 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 16stand in your presence, because the 17way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the 1819household idols.