“It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.”
I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me: be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad. The disclosure of the divine warning is Laban's way of claiming credit for restraint imposed on him from outside: I could harm you, but God told me not to. The application: when God constrains the person who could harm you, their eventual disclosure of that constraint is the testimony that the covenant God is real and protective.
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