17. Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
18. and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
19. Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
20. Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
21. So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
22. Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
23. He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
24. God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
25. Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
26. Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
27. Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
28. and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
29. It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
30. Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”
31. Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
32. Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
33. Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.