32 But, since you accuse me of theft, with whomever you will find your gods, let him be slain in the sight of our brothers. Search; anything of yours that you will find with me, take it away.' Now when he said this, he did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
33 And so Laban, entering the tent of Jacob, and of Leah, and of both the handmaids, did not find them. And when he had entered the tent of Rachel,
34 she quickly hid the idols under the camel's bedding, and she sat upon them. And when he had searched the entire tent and found nothing,
35 she said: 'Do not be angry, my lord, that I am unable to rise up in your sight, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women.' So his careful search was thwarted.
36 And Jacob, being inflated, said with contention: 'For which fault of mine, or for what sin of mine, have you become so enraged against me
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