Genesis 31:20

And Jacob was not willing to confess to his father-in-law that he was fleeing.

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In The King James Version

And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

In Context

19At that time, Laban had gone to shear the sheep, and so Rachel stole her father’s idols.

21And when he had gone away with all such things that were justly his, and, having crossed the river, was continuing on toward Mount Gilead,

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Cross References

Genesis 25:20who, when he was forty years old, took Rebekah, the sister of Laban, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian from Mesopotamia, as a wife.

Deuteronomy 26:5And you shall say, in the sight of the Lord your God: ‘The Syrian pursued my father, who descended into Egypt, and he sojourned there in a very small number, and he increased into a great and strong nation and into an innumerable multitude.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:18-25

17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; 18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the… Read the whole commentary →

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