²⁸ and did not allow me ^(A)to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.

The Covenant of Mizpah

⁴³ Then Laban replied to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and ^(A)the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?