Having won Laban’s flocks and his daughters Leah and Rachel as wives, Jacob set off to return to Canaan. On their departure Rachel stole her father’s household idols; when he discovered their loss Laban set off in pursuit, and on reaching the party started to search their baggage. But Rachel hid the idols in a saddle and sat on it, saying to her father ‘I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me.’ Here Jacob gestures towards Rachel who reclines against the saddle on the ground.