Genesis 31:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

Genesis 31:21

So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

Genesis 31:27

Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp;

Deuteronomy 26:5

And thou shalt answer and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: