NET Bible
"You didn’t even allow me to kiss my daughters and my grandchildren goodbye. You have acted foolishly!"
— Genesis 31:28, NET Bible
“And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.”
“and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly. ”
“and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.”
“Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters; thou hast done foolishly; and now indeed,”
“You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.”
“And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.”
Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.
“What have you done?” Laban demanded of Jacob.“You’ve deceived me and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war!
Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?
You didn’t even allow me to kiss my daughters and my grandchildren goodbye. You have acted foolishly!
I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night,‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’
Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”
“I left secretly because I was afraid!” Jacob replied to Laban.“I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.