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.