NHEB(i)
28 And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.
29 It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, x91Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.'
30 Now you have indeed gone away, because you longed greatly for your fatherʼs house. But why have you stolen my gods?"
31 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.'
32 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, identify what I have that is yours, and take it with you." For Jacob did not 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 did not find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
34 Now Rachel had taken the idols, put them in the camelʼs saddle, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.
35 She said to her father, "Do not let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me." He searched, but did not find the teraphim.
36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
37 Now that you have searched around in all my stuff, did you find anything from all of your household's belongings? Put it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between the two of us.
38 These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I havenʼt eaten the rams of your flocks.
39 That which was torn by animals I did not bring to you. I bore its loss. You demanded payment from me whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40 I was consumed by the heat during the day and by the frost at night, and sleepless nights.
41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the one whom Isaac fears, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my harsh treatment and my hard work, and rebuked you last night."
43 Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
44 So now, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between the two of us." And he said to him, "Look, there is no one with us; see, God is witness between me and you."
45 Jacob took a stone and set it up as a standing-stone.
46 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a mound. They ate there by the mound.
47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 Laban said, "This mound is a witness between me and you today." Therefore it was named Galeed
49 and Mizpah, for he said, "God watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
50 If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us; see, God is witness between me and you."
51 Laban said to Jacob, "See this mound, and see the standing-stone, which I have set between me and you.
52 May this mound be a witness, and the standing-stone be a witness, that I will not pass over this mound to you, and that you will not pass over this mound and this standing-stone to me, to do harm.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
54 Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and stayed all night on the mountain.
55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.