Genesis 31:20
And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, by not letting him know that he was going to flee.
Leeser Tanakh
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
19And Laban was gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the images that were her father's.
Cross References
Genesis 25:20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian, to himself as wife.
Deuteronomy 26:5And thou shalt commence and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian, wandering about, was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a family few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.
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 →