וַיַּצֵּ֧ל אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־מִקְנֵ֥ה אֲבִיכֶ֖ם וַיִּתֶּן־לִֽי׃
God has taken away your father’s livestock and given it to me.
Genesis 31:9 (The Contemporary Torah, JPS 2006)
This phrase “taken away” has the same root as the word used by Moses when Israel “plundered” the Egyptians during the Exodus.
The word is natsal. It means to deliver.
We are God’s plunder, rescued and delivered into the hands of the shepherd.