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

²⁰ 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

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 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.