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Genesis 31:27-31

Genesis 31:27

Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre;

Genesis 31:28

and did not allow me to kiss my grandchildren and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.

Genesis 31:29

It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful not to speak either good or bad to Jacob.’

Genesis 31:30

Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house; but why did you steal my gods?”

Genesis 31:31

Then Jacob replied to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.