29 I am [a]able to do you evil: but the [b]God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good.

30 Now though thou wentest thy way, because thou greatly longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

31 Then Jacob answered, and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, and thought that thou wouldest have taken thy daughters from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 31:29 Hebrew, power is in mine hand.
  2. Genesis 31:29 He was an Idolater, and therefore would not acknowledge the God of Jacob for his God.

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