27 Why did you flee secretly (A)and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre? 28 And why did you not permit me (B)to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly. 29 It is (C)in my power to do you harm. But the (D)God of your[a] father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, (E)either good or bad.’

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 31:29 The Hebrew for your is plural here

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