13. I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel, where you poured olive oil on a stone marker for a holy purpose and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land, and go back to the land of your relatives.’ ”
14. Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there anything left in our father’s household for us to inherit?
15. Doesn’t he think of us as foreigners? Not only did he sell us, but he has used up the money that was paid for us.
16. Certainly, all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. Now do whatever God has told you.”
17. Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels.
18. He drove all his livestock ahead of him and took all the possessions that he had accumulated. He took his own livestock that he had accumulated in Paddan Aram and went back to his father Isaac in Canaan.
19. When Laban went to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s idols.
20. Jacob also tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was leaving.
21. So he left in a hurry with all that belonged to him. He crossed the Euphrates River and went toward the mountains of Gilead.
22. Two days later Laban was told that Jacob had left in a hurry.
23. He and his relatives pursued Jacob for seven days. Laban caught up with him in the mountains of Gilead.
24. God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything at all to Jacob.”