Jacob also told them that it was God Himself who wanted him to return to Canaan. The women unhesitatingly agreed to leave with Jacob. This says a lot about the character of Laban. His own daughters had no desire to stay with him, but rather, readily agreed to relocate hundreds of miles away to a land they had never seen. And so Jacob gathered all his possessions together and left.
People worship money, worship power, worship family ties, worship self, worship worldly pleasure.
He shapes it in the form of man, of man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine. He cut down cedars, or perhaps took a cypress or oak. He let it grow among the trees of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow. So many people do not like the truth of the Living God, and so make a god in their own image, how they want god to be. They despise Christ's sacrifice, so they make a god who will save anyone who is right in his own eyes.