Genesis 31:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ 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

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 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: