22It was told to Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled.23He took his brothers with him and pursued after him seven days' journey, and he overtook him at Mount Gilead.24God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, "Guard yourself; do not speak to Jacob from good to bad."25Laban overtook Jacob. Jacob had pitched his tent on the mountain, and Laban with his brothers pitched on Mount Gilead.26Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me and led my daughters away like captives of the sword?27Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre?28You did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have acted foolishly.29It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Guard yourself; do not speak to Jacob from good to bad.'30And now you have gone because you longed for your father's house. Why did you steal my gods?"31Jacob answered Laban, "I was afraid, for I thought that you would seize your daughters from me.32Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. Before our brothers identify what is with me and take it for yourself." Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.33Laban entered Jacob's tent and Leah's tent and the tent of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. He went out from Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent.34Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban felt through all the tent but did not find them.35She said to her father, "Let not my lord's anger burn in his eyes, for I am not able to rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." He searched but did not find the teraphim.36Jacob became angry and contended with Laban. Jacob answered and said to Laban, "What is my transgression? What is my sin, that you have pursued me?37When you felt through all my goods, what did you find of all the goods of your house? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, and let them decide between us.38These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your goats have not been bereaved, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten.39I have not brought you animals torn by beasts. I myself will bear the loss. You may require it from my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.40By day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.41These twenty years I served you in your house: fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.42Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the dread of Isaac, had been for me, now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."43Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the sons are my sons, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do today about these daughters of mine or about their children whom they have borne?44Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between me and you."45Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.46Jacob said to his brothers, "Gather stones." They took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.47Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.48Laban said, "This heap is a witness between me and you today." Therefore he called its name Galeed.49And Mizpah, because he said, "May the LORD watch between me and you when we are hidden from one another.50If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, though no man is with us, see, God is witness between me and you."51Laban said to Jacob, "Behold this heap and behold the pillar that I have set between me and you.52This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.53The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, will judge between us." Jacob swore by the dread of his father Isaac.54Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his brothers to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night on the mountain.55Laban rose early in the morning, kissed his sons and his daughters, blessed them, and departed. Laban returned to his own place.