Genesis 31:35

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry because I do not get up before you, for I am in the common condition of women. And with all his searching, he did not come across the images.

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  • Lev 19:32 : 32 Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.
  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
  • Gen 18:11-12 : 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth. 12 And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?
  • Lev 15:19 : 19 And if a woman has a flow of blood from her body, she will have to be kept separate for seven days, and anyone touching her will be unclean till evening.
  • 1 Kgs 2:19 : 19 So Bath-sheba went to King Solomon to have talk with him on Adonijah's account. And the king got up to come to her, and went down low to the earth before her; then he took his place on the king's seat and had a seat made ready for the king's mother and she took her place at his right hand.
  • Eph 6:1 : 1 Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.
  • 1 Pet 2:18 : 18 Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured.
  • 1 Pet 3:6 : 6 As Sarah was ruled by Abraham, naming him lord; whose children you are if you do well, and are not put in fear by any danger.

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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?

    31 And Jacob, in answer, said to Laban, My fear was that you might take your daughters from me by force.

    32 As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.

    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.

    34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.

  • Gen 31:17-19
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    17 Then Jacob put his wives and his sons on camels;

    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.

    19 Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.

  • Gen 31:36-37
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    36 Then Jacob was angry with Laban, and said, What crime or sin have I done that you have come after me with such passion?

    37 Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.

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

  • Gen 29:24-26
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    24 And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman.

    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?

    26 And Laban said, In our country we do not let the younger daughter be married before the older.

  • Gen 31:4-5
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    4 And Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the field among his flock.

    5 And he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's feeling is no longer what it was to me; but the God of my father has been with me

  • Gen 31:26-27
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    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?

  • 9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them.

  • Gen 29:16-17
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    16 Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

    17 And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form.

  • Gen 30:2-3
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    2 But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

    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.

  • 14 And she took her rest at his feet till the morning: and she got up before it was light enough for one to see another. And he said, Let it not come to anyone's knowledge that the woman came to the grain-floor.

  • 19 Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing.

  • Gen 31:42-43
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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.

    43 Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?

  • 15 But Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband from me? and now would you take my son's love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have him tonight in exchange for your son's love-fruits.

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

  • 6 And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.

  • 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.

  • 2 And Jacob saw that Laban's feeling for him was no longer what it had been before.

  • 23 And said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in your father's house for us?

  • 50 If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness between us.

  • 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.

  • 30 And when he saw the nose-ring and the ornaments on his sister's hands, and when she gave him word of what the man had said to her, then he went out to the man who was waiting with the camels by the water-spring.

  • 37 And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

  • 39 And I said to my master, What if the woman will not come with me?

  • 12 And he said, See how all the he-goats are banded and marked and coloured: for I have seen what Laban has done to you.

  • 17 And now he has put shame on her, saying that she is not a virgin; but here is the sign that she is a virgin. Then they are to put her clothing before the responsible men of the town.