Go instead to my father’s house, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son.’
The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you.
And my master made me take an oath. He said, ‘Do not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.
“But I said to my master, ‘What if I can’t find a young woman who is willing to go back with me?’
Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac.”
At the time they left, Laban was some distance away, shearing his sheep. Rachel stole her father’s household idols and took them with her.