35 Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence;(A) I’m having my period.(B)” So he searched but could not find the household gods.(C)

36 Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. “What is my crime?” he asked Laban. “How have I wronged(D) you that you hunt me down?(E) 37 Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household?(F) Put it here in front of your relatives(G) and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.(H)

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35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched but found not the images.

36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

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