Genesis 31:31-41

1599 Geneva Bible

³¹ Then Jacob answered, and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, and thought that thou wouldest have taken thy daughters from me.

³² But with whom thou findest thy gods, ^[a]let him not live. Search thou before our brethren what I have of thine, and take it to thee, (but Jacob wist not that Rachel had stolen them.)

³³ Then came Laban into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maid’s tents, but found them not. So he went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

³⁴ (Now Rachel had taken the idols, and put them in the camel’s ^[b]litter and sat down upon them) and Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

³⁵ Then said she to her father, ^[c]My Lord, be not angry that I cannot rise up before thee: for the custom of women is upon me: so he searched, but found not the idols.

³⁶ ¶ Then Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: Jacob also answered and said to Laban, What have I trespassed? what have I offended, that thou hast pursued after me?

³⁷ Seeing thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thine household stuff? put it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge between us both.

³⁸ This twenty years I have been with thee: thine ewes and thy goats have not ^[d]cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

^39 [e]Whatsoever was torn of beasts, I brought it not unto thee, but made it good myself: ^(A)of mine hand diddest thou require it, were it stolen by day, or stolen by night.

⁴⁰ I was in the day consumed with heat, and with frost in the night, and my ^[f]sleep departed from mine eyes.

⁴¹ Thus have I been twenty years in thine house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my wages ten times.