Genesis 31:26-30 ▼

26 Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done by deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword?

27 Why did you flee secretly and deceive me and not tell me—so that I might have sent you away with gladness and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre—

28 and not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have acted foolishly.

29 It is in my hand to do evil against you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Beware of speaking either good or evil to Jacob.’

30 So now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house; but why did you steal my gods?”