Genesis 31:20 - Easy To Read Version

²⁰ Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean. He did not tell Laban he was leaving.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 25:20

When Isaac was 40 years old he married Rebekah. Rebekah was from Paddan Aram. She was Bethuel’s daughter and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 31:19

At this time, Laban was gone to cut the wool from his sheep. While he was gone, Rachel went into his house and stole the false gods that belonged to her father.

Genesis 31:21

Jacob took his family and everything he owned and left quickly. They crossed the Euphrates River and traveled toward the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:27

Why did you run away without telling me? If you had told me, I would have given you a party. There would have been singing and dancing with music.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then there before the Lord your God you will say: ‘My ancestor was a wandering Aramean. [157] He went down into Egypt and stayed there. When he went there, he had only a few people in his family. But in Egypt he became a great nation—a powerful nation with many people.