Genesis 31:27

31:27 Why did you run away secretly49 and deceive me?50 Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?51

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49	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.”
50	tn Heb “and steal me.”
51	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?”