Catholic Public Domain Version
"Jacob answered: “I set out, unknown to you, because I feared that you might take away your daughters by violence. "
— Genesis 31:31, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.”
“And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force. ”
“Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'”
““I left secretly because I was afraid!” Jacob replied to Laban.“I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.”
“Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear lest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force.”
“And Jacob, in answer, said to Laban, My fear was that you might take your daughters from me by force.”
“And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.”
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,
she quickly hid the idols under the camel’s bedding, and she sat upon them. And when he had searched the entire tent and found nothing,