Jacob Flees From Laban

31 Jacob heard that Laban’s sons^(A) were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.”^(B)

⁹ So God has taken away your father’s livestock^(A) and has given them to me.^(B)

¹⁶ Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children.^(A) So do whatever God has told you.”

⁴³ Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks.^(A) All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?