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There is certainly thematic continuity to this answer, you're not wrong in stating that there is an element of 'stealing the blessing' from Laban going on here (which is why I upvoted your answer), you may be overstating your case when referring to the idols as ancestors or family - there is a clear reference within the text to the idols as Laban's God's, in his statement to Jacob in vv 51-53
– Theodore Rein Jedlicka
Commented Apr 11 at 17:29
51 “Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob. 52 “This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me. 53 May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared. NET
– Theodore Rein Jedlicka
Commented Apr 11 at 17:29
@TheodoreReinJedlicka I take your point. There is nothing in the bible itself to suggest they were images of the family's ancestors, although some of the rabbis did think so. But I do think it is correct to think they represented an ancestral tradition.
– Dan Fefferman
Commented Apr 11 at 17:58

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