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27 Why did you hide your intention to flee and trick me,[a] and did not tell me so that I would have sent you away with joy and song and tambourine and lyre? 28 And why did you not give me opportunity to kiss my grandsons[b] and my daughters goodbye? Now you have behaved foolishly by doing this. 29 It is in my power[c] to do harm to you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night saying, ‘Take care[d] from speaking with Jacob, whether good or evil.’

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 31:27 Literally “steal my heart”
  2. Genesis 31:28 Or “sons”
  3. Genesis 31:29 Literally “there is power in my hand”
  4. Genesis 31:29 Literally “watch to yourself”