26 And Laban said to Jacob: “What have you done, that you have stolen away unknown to me, and ^acarried away my daughters like captives taken with the sword?  ‡

27 Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and not tell me; for I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with timbrel and harp?

29 It is in my power to do you harm, but the ^aGod of your father spoke to me ^blast night, saying, ‘Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.’  ‡

30 And now you have surely gone because you greatly long for your father’s house, but why did you ^asteal my gods?”  ‡