¹⁹ When Laban had gone to shear his sheep,^(A) Rachel stole her father’s household gods.^(B)

³⁰ Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household.^(A) But why did you steal^(B) my gods?^(C)”

³¹ Jacob answered Laban, “I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.^{(D) 32} But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live.^(E) In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.^(F)

³³ So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent^(G) and into the tent of the two female servants,^(H) but he found nothing.^(I) After he came out of Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent. ³⁴ Now Rachel had taken the household gods^(J) and put them inside her camel’s saddle^(K) and was sitting on them. Laban searched^(L) through everything in the tent but found nothing.

³⁵ Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence;^(M) I’m having my period.^(N)” So he searched but could not find the household gods.^(O)