Instead, go to my father’s family and to my own relatives. Get a wife for my son there.’
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s family. Go to the land I will show you.
My master made me promise him. He said, ‘I’m living in the land of the people of Canaan. But promise me that you won’t get a wife for my son from their daughters.
“Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman won’t come back with me?’
Instead, promise me that you will go to my country and to my own relatives. Get a wife for my son Isaac from there.”
Laban had gone to clip the wool from his sheep. While he was gone, Rachel stole the statues of the family gods that belonged to her father.