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35 “Forgive my not getting up, Father,” Rachel explained, “but I’m having my monthly period.”[a] So Laban didn’t find them.

36-37 Now Jacob got mad. “What did you find?” he demanded of Laban. “What is my crime? You have come rushing after me as though you were chasing a criminal and have searched through everything. Now put everything I stole out here in front of us, before your men and mine, for all to see and to decide whose it is!

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  1. Genesis 31:35 but I’m having my monthly period, implied; literally, “The manner of women is upon me.” She was pregnant with Benjamin, but was falsely claiming her menstrual period, which, under the later Mosaic law, caused ceremonial defilement of all that she sat upon. See Leviticus 15.

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