30:43. And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, camels and asses. Genesis Chapter 31 Jacob’s departure: he is pursued and overtaken by Laban. They make a covenant. 31:1. But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s, and being enriched by his substance is become great. 31:2. And perceiving also, that Laban’s countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day. 31:3. Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee. 31:4. He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks, 31:5. And said to them: I see your father’s countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me. 31:6. And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power. 31:7. Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me. 31:8. If at any time, he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white one for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones. 31:9. And God hath taken your father’s substance, and given it to me. 31:10. For after the time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep, that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled. 31:11. And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob. And I answered: Here I am. 31:12. And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee. 31:13. I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country. 31:14. And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father’s house? 31:15. Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us? 31:16. But God hath taken our father’s riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee. 31:17. Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way. 31:18. And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Chanaan. 31:19. At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father’s idols. Her father’s idols.... By this it appears that Laban was an idolater; and some of the fathers are of opinion that Rachel stole away these idols to withdraw him from idolatry, removing the occasion of his sin. 31:20. And Jacob would not confess to his father-in-law that he was flying away.