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19 When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel [went inside the house and] stole her father’s [a]household gods. 20 And Jacob [b]deceived Laban the Aramean (Syrian) by not telling him that he intended to leave and he slipped away secretly. 21 So he fled with everything that he had, and got up and crossed the river [Euphrates], and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead [east of the Jordan River].

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 31:19 Possession of these pagan figurines implied or conferred a right of inheritance.
  2. Genesis 31:20 Lit stole the heart of.

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