Genesis 31:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And Jacob outwitted Laban the Syrian [Aramean] in that he did not tell him that he [intended] to flee and slip away secretly.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

Common English Bible

Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not sending word to him that he was leaving.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And Jacob was not willing to confess to his father-in-law that he was fleeing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Jacob would not confess to his father-in-law that he was flying away.

Genesis 31:20 Cross References

Genesis 25:20

and Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 31:19

Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.

Genesis 31:21

He fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphrates, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:27

Why did you flee secretly, and cheat me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?

Deuteronomy 26:5

“And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.