⁴ So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were.

¹⁴ Then Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we still have any share^(A) in the inheritance of our father’s estate? ¹⁵ Does he not regard us as foreigners?^(B) Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us.^{(C) 16} Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children.^(D) So do whatever God has told you.”

¹⁷ Then Jacob put his children and his wives^(E) on camels,^{(F) 18} and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated^(G) in Paddan Aram,^[a](H) to go to his father Isaac^(I) in the land of Canaan.^(J)

¹⁹ When Laban had gone to shear his sheep,^(K) Rachel stole her father’s household gods.^(L)

³³ So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent^(A) and into the tent of the two female servants,^(B) but he found nothing.^(C) After he came out of Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent. ³⁴ Now Rachel had taken the household gods^(D) and put them inside her camel’s saddle^(E) and was sitting on them. Laban searched^(F) through everything in the tent but found nothing.

³⁵ Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence;^(G) I’m having my period.^(H)” So he searched but could not find the household gods.^(I)