Genesis 31:16
Good News Translation
All this wealth which God has taken from our father belongs to us and to our children. Do whatever God has told you."

New Revised Standard Version
All the property that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children; now then, do whatever God has said to you.”

Contemporary English Version
So do whatever God tells you to do. Even the property God took from our father and gave to you really belongs to us and our children.

New American Bible
All the wealth that God took away from our father really belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.

which God.

Genesis 31:1,9 But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and being enriched by his substance is become great. . . .

Genesis 30:35-43 And he separated the same day the she-goats, and the sheep, and the he-goats, and the rams of divers colours, and spotted; and all the flock of one colour, that is, of white and black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons. . . .

whatsoever.

Psalm 45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house.

Context
Jacob Flees from Laban
15Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us? 16But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.17Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.…
Cross References
Genesis 31:9
And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.

Genesis 31:15
Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

Genesis 31:17
Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.

Genesis 31:15
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