Genesis 31:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not sending word to him that he was leaving.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And Jacob was not willing to confess to his father-in-law that he was fleeing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ 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 married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 31:19

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

Genesis 31:21

So he fled with all that he had; starting out he crossed the Euphrates and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:27

Why did you flee secretly and deceive me and not tell me? I would have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre.

Deuteronomy 26:5

you shall make this response before the Lord your God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.