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34 Rachel had taken the idols and she had put them inside her camel's seat. Now she was sitting on them. Laban looked everywhere in Rachel's tent but he did not find the idols. 35 Rachel said to him, ‘Do not be angry with me, sir. I cannot stand up in front of you. It is the time of my monthly blood loss.’[a] So Laban looked everywhere for the idols, but he did not find them.

36 Then Jacob became angry and he quarrelled with Laban. He asked Laban, ‘What have I done wrong? What sin have I done against you so that you had to catch me?

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  1. 31:35 At the time of the Old Testament, when a woman had her monthly blood loss, she was unclean. And anything that she sat on became unclean. See Leviticus 15:20.