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18 and he drove away all his livestock and [took along] all his property which he had acquired, the livestock he had obtained and accumulated in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan. 19 When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel [went inside the house and] stole her father’s [a]household gods. 20 And Jacob [b]deceived Laban the Aramean (Syrian) by not telling him that he intended to leave and he slipped away secretly.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 31:19 Possession of these pagan figurines implied or conferred a right of inheritance.
  2. Genesis 31:20 Lit stole the heart of.

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