Genesis 31:27

Why did you run away secretly ¹  and deceive me? ²  Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps? ³ 

Ge 24:59,60; Ge 31:3-5,20,21,31; Ge 31:20; Ex 15:20; Jud 6:27; Job 21:11-14; Pr 26:23-26

¹ tn Heb “Why did you hide in order to flee?” The verb “hide” and the infinitive “to flee” form a hendiadys, the infinitive becoming the main verb and the other the adverb: “flee secretly.”

² tn Heb “and steal me.”

³ tn Heb “And [why did] you not tell me so I could send you off with joy and with songs, with a tambourine and with a harp?”