After that Jacob had heard Laban’s sons say:  Jacob hath taken all that was our father’s from him, and of his faculty is made rich, he was abashed and understood well by Laban’s looking that he was not so friendly to himward as he had been tofore.  And also our Lord said to him that he should return into the land of his fathers and to his generation, and that he would be with him.  He then called Rachel and Leah into the field whereas he fed his flocks, and said to them:  I see well by your father’s visage that he is not toward me as he was yesterday or that other day; forsooth the God of my father was with me, and ye know well how I have served your father with all my might and strength, but he hath deceived me, and hath changed mine hire and meed ten times, and yet our Lord hath not suffered him to grieve me.  When he said the beasts of party color should be mine, then all the ewes brought forth lambs of variable colors.  And when he said the contrary they brought forth all white.  God hath taken the substance of your father and hath given it to me.  And now God hath commanded me to depart, wherefore make you ready and let us depart hence.  Then answered Rachel and Leah:  Shall we have nothing else of our father’s faculty and of the heritage of his house?  Shall he repute us as strangers, and he hath eaten and sold our goods?  Sith God hath taken the goods of our father and hath given it to us and to our children, wherefore all that God commanded to thee, do it.

Jacob arose and set his children and his wives upon his camels, and went his way and took all his substance, and flocks, and all that he had gotten in Mesopotamia and went toward his father Isaac into the land of Canaan.  That time was Laban gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away the idols of her father.  Jacob would not let Laban know of his departing, and when he was departed with all that longed to him of right, he came to the mount of Gilead.  It was told to Laban, the third day after, that Jacob was fled and gone, who anon took his brethren and pursued him by the space of seven days and overtook him in the mount of Gilead.  He saw our Lord in his sleep saying to him:  Beware that thou speak not angrily ne hard words to Jacob.  That time Jacob had set his tabernacle in the hill, and when he came thither with his brethren, he said to Jacob:  Why hast thou done thus to me to take away my daughters as prisoners taken by sword?  Why fleddest thou from me and wouldst not let me have knowledge thereof?  Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters, thou hast done follily.  Now may I do thee harm and evil, but the God of thy father said to me yesterday:  Beware that thou speak no hard words against Jacob.  Thou desirest to go to the house of thy father, why hast thou stolen my gods?  Jacob answered:  That I departed thee not knowing, I dreaded that violently thou wouldst have taken from me thy daughters.  And where thou reprovest me of theft, whosoever have stolen thy gods let him be slain tofore our brethren.  Seek and what thou findest that is thine, take with thee.