New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Genesis 31
28 and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.
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.’
30 Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house; but why did you steal my gods?"
31 Then Jacob replied to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.
32 The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our kinsmen point out what is yours among my belongings and take it for yourself." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
33 So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two maids, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
34 Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel’s saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban felt through all the tent but did not find them.
35 She said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household idols.
36 Then Jacob became angry and contended with Laban; and Jacob said to Laban, "What is my transgression? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?
37 Though you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.
38 These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.
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