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35 Rachel said to him, ‘Do not be angry with me, sir. I cannot stand up in front of you. It is the time of my monthly blood loss.’[a] So Laban looked everywhere for the idols, but he did not find them.

36 Then Jacob became angry and he quarrelled with Laban. He asked Laban, ‘What have I done wrong? What sin have I done against you so that you had to catch me? 37 Now you have looked through everything that I have. Did you find anything that belongs to you? If you have found anything, put it here. Then your relatives and my relatives can see it. Our relatives can decide which of us is right, you or me!’

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Footnotes

  1. 31:35 At the time of the Old Testament, when a woman had her monthly blood loss, she was unclean. And anything that she sat on became unclean. See Leviticus 15:20.