Genesis 31:26
Good News Translation
Laban said to Jacob, "Why did you deceive me and carry off my daughters like women captured in war?

New Revised Standard Version
Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword.

Contemporary English Version
and said: Look what you've done! You've tricked me and run off with my daughters like a kidnapper.

New American Bible
Laban said to Jacob, “How could you hoodwink me and carry off my daughters like prisoners of war?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword?

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And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword?

What.

Genesis 31:36 And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,

Genesis 3:13 And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.

Genesis 4:10 And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth.

Genesis 12:18 And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

Genesis 20:9,10 And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and said to him: What hast thou done to us? what have we offended thee in, that thou hast brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done to us what thou oughtest not to do. . . .

Genesis 26:10 And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:

Joshua 7:19 And Joshua said to Achan: My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.

1 Samuel 14:43 And Saul said to Jonathan: Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said: I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod, which was in my hand, and behold I must die.

1 Samuel 17:29 And David said: What have I done? is there not cause to speak?

John 18:35 Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done?

carried.

Genesis 31:16 But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.

Genesis 2:24 Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

Genesis 34:29 And their children and wives they took captive.

1 Samuel 30:2 And had taken the women captives that were in it, both little and great: and they had not killed any person, but had carried them with them, and went on their way.

Context
Laban Pursues Jacob
25Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he, with his brethren, had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad. 26And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword?27Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?…
Cross References
Genesis 31:25
Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he, with his brethren, had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad.

Genesis 31:27
Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?

Genesis 31:25
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