Genesis 30:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country.

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  • Gen 24:54 : 54 Then he and the men who were with him had food and drink, and took their rest there that night; and in the morning he got up, and said, Let me now go back to my master.
  • Gen 24:56 : 56 And he said, Do not keep me; the Lord has given a good outcome to my journey; let me now go back to my master.
  • Gen 26:3 : 3 Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;
  • Gen 27:44-45 : 44 And be there with him for a little time, till your brother's wrath is turned away; 45 Till the memory of what you have done to him is past and he is no longer angry: then I will send word for you to come back; are the two of you to be taken from me in one day?
  • Gen 28:13 : 13 And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.
  • Gen 28:15 : 15 And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.
  • Gen 31:13 : 13 I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.
  • Gen 31:55 : 55 And early in the morning Laban, after kissing and blessing his daughters, went on his way back to his country.
  • Acts 7:4-5 : 4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now: 5 And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:
  • Heb 11:15-16 : 15 And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back. 16 But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
  • Gen 18:33 : 33 And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.
  • Gen 24:6-7 : 6 And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land. 7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

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  • Gen 30:26-28
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    26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have been your servant, and let me go: for you have knowledge of all the work I have done for you.

    27 And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.

    28 Say then what your payment is to be and I will give it.

  • Gen 30:24
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    24 And she gave him the name Joseph, saying, May the Lord give me another son.

  • Gen 29:21
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    21 Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are ended.

  • Gen 28:5
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    5 So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

  • Gen 31:3-4
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    3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

    4 And Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the field among his flock.

  • Gen 45:25
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    25 So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.

  • Gen 31:55
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    55 And early in the morning Laban, after kissing and blessing his daughters, went on his way back to his country.

  • Gen 28:7
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    7 And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;

  • Gen 31:18
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    18 And sending on before him all his cattle and his property which he had got together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 29:19
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    19 And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.

  • Gen 35:16
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    16 So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.

  • Gen 46:19
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    19 The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

  • Gen 28:2
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    2 But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

  • Gen 35:24
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    24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

  • Gen 29:15-16
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    15 Then Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother are you to be my servant for nothing? say now, what is your payment to be?

    16 Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

  • Gen 31:13-14
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    13 I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.

    14 Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 29:12
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    12 And Rachel, hearing from Jacob that he was her father's relation and that he was the son of Rebekah, went running to give her father news of it.

  • Gen 29:25
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    25 And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me?

  • Gen 46:31
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    31 And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;

  • Gen 31:25-27
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    25 Now when Laban overtook him, Jacob had put up his tent in the hill-country; and Laban and his brothers put up their tents in the hill-country of Gilead.

    26 And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?

    27 Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?

  • Gen 31:42
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    42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

  • Gen 31:33
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    33 So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.

  • Gen 31:30
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    30 And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?

  • Gen 29:10
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    10 Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

  • Gen 30:30
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    30 For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

  • Gen 30:3
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    3 Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.

  • Gen 45:17
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    17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Put your goods on your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan;