Jacob’s Return

We have noticed the insinuations of Laban's speech. Jacob had stolen away unawares. What had occasioned this strange manner of departure was not according to Laban, the treatment he in the past had afforded Jacob but the latter's own guilty conscience. All along Laban had been looking forward to sending him away peaceably, with mirth, with songs, with tabret, and with harp, so that, such was the intimation, during the entire period of servitude, he had cherished the kindliest feelings toward...