# Now

This word is used here to mark a break in the main story line. Here the author starts to tell a new part of the story.

# [Jacob](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/jacob) heard the words of [Laban](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/laban)'s sons, that they said

"[Jacob](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/jacob) heard that [Laban](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/laban)'s sons were saying"

# [Jacob](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/jacob) has taken away all that was our father's

[Laban](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/laban)'s sons were exaggerating because they were angry. AT: "Everything that [Jacob](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/jacob) has taken belonged to our father" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole]])