Genesis 31:25-35

25 Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too.
26 Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You’ve deceived me, and you’ve carried off my daughters like captives in war.
27 Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timbrels and harps?
28 You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing.
29 I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
30 Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?”
31 Jacob answered Laban, “I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.
32 But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.
33 So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent.
34 Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them inside her camel’s saddle and was sitting on them. Laban searched through everything in the tent but found nothing.
35 Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I’m having my period.” So he searched but could not find the household gods.

Cross References 26

  • 1. S ver 21
  • 2. S Genesis 12:18
  • 3. S Genesis 27:36
  • 4. Genesis 34:29; 1 Samuel 30:2-3
  • 5. ver 20
  • 6. Exodus 15:20; Judges 11:34; 1 Samuel 10:5; 2 Samuel 6:5; Psalms 68:25; Isaiah 24:8; Jeremiah 31:4
  • 7. S Genesis 4:21
  • 8. ver 55; S Genesis 27:27; Ruth 1:14; Acts 20:37
  • 9. S ver 7; S Genesis 26:29
  • 10. S ver 5; ver 53
  • 11. S Genesis 24:50
  • 12. S Genesis 28:15; Job 29:2
  • 13. Genesis 44:8
  • 14. S ver 19; Judges 18:24
  • 15. S Genesis 20:11
  • 16. Genesis 44:9
  • 17. S ver 19
  • 18. Genesis 24:67
  • 19. S Genesis 16:1
  • 20. ver 37
  • 21. S ver 19
  • 22. S Genesis 24:63-64
  • 23. ver 37; Genesis 44:12
  • 24. Exodus 20:12; Leviticus 19:3,32; Deuteronomy 21:18; Deuteronomy 27:16; Jeremiah 35:18
  • 25. Leviticus 15:19-23
  • 26. ver 19
Scripture quoted by permission.  Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®.  NIV®.  Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica.  All rights reserved worldwide.