^{24 Ref} God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."

^{25 Ref} Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

^{26 Ref} Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

^{27 Ref} Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

^{28 Ref} and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

^{29 Ref} It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'