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
37 and searched all the items of my house? What have you found from all the substance of your house? Place it here before my brothers, and your brothers, and let them judge between me and you.
38 For what reason have I been with you for twenty years? Your ewes and she-goats were not barren; the rams of your flocks I did not consume.
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