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- Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, that they said - "Jacob heard that Laban's sons were saying,"
- has taken away all that was our father’s - Laban's sons were exaggerating because they were angry. This could be translated as "has taken so much that belonged to our father." (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_hyperbole)
- Jacob saw the look on Laban's face. He saw that his attitude toward him had changed - These two sentences mean basically the same thing. The second explains the look that Jacob saw on Laban's face. AT: "Jacob noticed that Laban was no longer pleased with him." (See: :en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_parallelism)
- your fathers - "your father Isaac and your grandfather Abraham"