Catholic Public Domain Version
"It may be that you desired to go to your own, and that you longed for the house of your father. But why have you stolen my gods?” "
— Genesis 31:30, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?”
“And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? ”
“Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"”
“Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?””
“Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?”
“And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?”
“And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?”
Why would you want to flee without my knowledge and without telling me, though I might have led you forward with gladness, and songs, and timbrels, and lyres?
You have not permitted me to kiss my sons and daughters. You have acted foolishly. And now, indeed,
my hand has power to repay you with harm. But the God of your father said to me yesterday, ‘Beware that you not speak anything stern against Jacob.’
It may be that you desired to go to your own, and that you longed for the house of your father. But why have you stolen my gods?”
Jacob answered: “I set out, unknown to you, because I feared that you might take away your daughters by violence.
But, since you accuse me of theft, with whomever you will find your gods, let him be slain in the sight of our brothers. Search; anything of yours that you will find with me, take it away.” Now when he said this, he did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
And so Laban, entering the tent of Jacob, and of Leah, and of both the handmaids, did not find them. And when he had entered the tent of Rachel,