NET Bible
"“I left secretly because I was afraid!” Jacob replied to Laban.“I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force."
— Genesis 31:31, NET Bible
“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.'”
“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.”
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.
Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.”(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)
So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.
(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.