Genesis 30:27

27. I have learned by experience נחשׁתי , I have divined; or, I have learned by divination . The words indicate that Laban had become, to some extent at least, involved in heathen and idolatrous practices . Compare Genesis 31:19; Genesis 30:32. Some, however, take the word in the wider signification of diligent inquiry and examination, a meaning not sustained by general usage . Laban rather claims to have discovered, by some sort of augury, that Jacob’s God, Jehovah, had favoured him for Jacob’s sake .