Holy Scripture
Genesis 31:17
A church father on this verse
“Consider, I ask you, the good man's noble resolve in quelling every sentiment of fear or reluctance when responding to the command of the Lord. I mean, when he saw Laban's attitude was not promising, he refrained from confronting him as before; instead, he discharged the direction from the Lord by taking his wives and…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
17And Jacob arose and took his wives and his children up on the camels;
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15Are we not considered strangers by him? for he has sold us, and quite devoured our money.
16All the wealth and the glory which God has taken from our father, it shall be ours and our children’s; now then do whatsoever God has said to thee.
— Genesis 31:17 —
18and he took away all his possessions and all his store, which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to depart to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
19And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father’s images.