Genesis 31:27
Good News Translation
Why did you deceive me and slip away without telling me? If you had told me, I would have sent you on your way with rejoicing and singing to the music of tambourines and harps.

New Revised Standard Version
Why did you flee secretly and deceive me and not tell me? I would have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre.

Contemporary English Version
Why did you sneak away without telling me? I would have given you a going-away party with singing and with music on tambourines and harps.

New American Bible
Why did you dupe me by stealing away secretly? You did not tell me! I would have sent you off with joyful singing to the sound of tambourines and harps.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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?

Wherefore.

Genesis 31:3-5,20,21,31 Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee. . . .

Judges 6:27 Then Gedeon, taking ten men of his servants, did as the Lord had commanded him. But fearing his father's house, and the men of that city, he would not do it by day, but did all by night.

steal away from me.

Genesis 31:20 And Jacob would not confess to his father-in-law that he was flying away.

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that I.

Proverbs 26:23-26 Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthern vessel adorned with silver dross. . . .

with mirth.

Genesis 24:59,60 So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his company. . . .

Job 21:11-14 Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play. . . .

tabret.

Exodus 15:20 So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.

Context
Laban Pursues Jacob
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?28Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters; thou hast done foolishly; and now indeed,…
Cross References
Genesis 4:21
And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of them that play upon the harp and the organs.

Genesis 31:26
And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword?

Exodus 15:20
So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.

Job 21:12
They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Isaiah 5:12
The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Genesis 31:26
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