Genesis 29:12

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Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

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  • Gen 24:28 : 28 The young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
  • Gen 13:8 : 8 So Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no conflict between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kin.
  • Gen 14:14-16 : 14 When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he mustered the 318 trained men born in his household and pursued them as far as Dan. 15 He divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and attacked them. He pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus. 16 He recovered all the goods and also brought back his kinsman Lot, along with his possessions, the women, and the other people.

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  • Gen 29:13-14
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    13When Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban everything that had happened.

    14Then Laban said to him, 'Surely you are my own flesh and blood.' Jacob stayed with him for a month.

  • Gen 29:9-11
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    9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went up, rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth, and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

    11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

  • Gen 24:28-30
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    28The young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

    29Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and Laban ran out to the man at the spring.

    30As soon as he saw the nose ring and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and heard Rebekah tell what the man had said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels at the spring.

  • Gen 29:4-6
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    4Jacob said to them, 'My brothers, where are you from?' They replied, 'We are from Haran.'

    5He asked them, 'Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?' They answered, 'We know him.'

    6Then he asked, 'Is he well?' They said, 'He is well, and look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.'

  • Gen 31:4
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    4So Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flock was.

  • Gen 29:28-29
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    28Jacob did so and completed the week with Leah. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

    29Laban also gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

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

  • Gen 27:6
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    6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, 'Look, I overheard your father speaking to your brother Esau.'

  • Gen 31:18-20
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    18He drove all his livestock and all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan Aram to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

    19Meanwhile, Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

    20Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.

  • Gen 29:18-19
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    18Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.'

    19Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to another man. Stay here with me.'

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

  • Gen 31:33
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    33So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he left Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent.

  • Gen 28:5
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    5Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother.

  • Gen 42:29
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    29When they came to Jacob, their father, in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them.

  • Gen 30:25
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    25After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, 'Send me on my way so I can go back to my homeland.'

  • Gen 31:25
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    25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his relatives camped in the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 33:4
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    4But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

  • Gen 28:7
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    7Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and went to Paddan-Aram.

  • Gen 29:25
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    25In the morning, Jacob saw it was Leah. So he said to Laban, 'What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve you for Rachel? Why have you deceived me?'