The God of My Father Has Been With Me

So soon he was very wealthy much cattle made servants men servants camels and asses Laban's son sons become jealous and Laban is outraged. As they sneak away Rachel steals the idols that her father has in his house to stop him from divining their escape route. The idea would be that Laban would have used some sort of ritual with the idols that would help him infer their escape route and then could chase them. But God comes in a dream to tell him to leave Jacob unharmed.