Genesis 31:2

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Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was no longer the same as it had been before.

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  • Gen 4:5 : 5 But He did not look with favor on Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his face was downcast.
  • Gen 30:27 : 27 But Laban said to him, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me because of you.'
  • Exod 4:10 : 10 Moses said to the LORD, 'Pardon me, Lord, but I am not eloquent—neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.'
  • Deut 19:4 : 4 Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: whoever strikes his neighbor unintentionally, without prior malice,
  • Deut 28:54 : 54 Even the most tender and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who are still alive.
  • 1 Sam 18:9-9 : 9 From that day onward, Saul kept a close and suspicious eye on David. 10 The next day, an evil spirit from God came powerfully upon Saul, and he raved inside the house while David was playing the harp, as he usually did. Saul had a spear in his hand. 11 Saul hurled the spear, saying, "I’ll pin David to the wall." But David evaded him twice.
  • 1 Sam 19:7 : 7 Then Jonathan called David and told him everything. He brought David to Saul, and David was once again in Saul’s presence as before.
  • Dan 3:19 : 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. He ordered that the furnace be heated seven times hotter than usual.

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  • Gen 31:3-5
    3 verses
    82%

    3 Then the LORD said to Jacob, 'Return to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you.'

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

    5 He said to them, 'I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not as it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.'

  • Gen 31:1
    81%

    1 Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, 'Jacob has taken all that belonged to our father and has acquired all this wealth from what was our father’s.'

  • Gen 31:12
    78%

    12 He said, 'Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

  • Gen 31:51
    76%

    51 Laban also said to Jacob, 'Here is the heap, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

  • Gen 31:24-26
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    24 But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, 'Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.'

    25 Laban 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.

    26 Then Laban said to Jacob, 'What have you done? You deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives taken in war.

  • Gen 31:36
    75%

    36 Then Jacob became angry and confronted Laban. 'What is my crime?' he asked. 'What sin have I committed that you have pursued me?

  • Gen 31:20-22
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    20 Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.

    21 So Jacob fled with all he had. He crossed the river and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

    22 On the third day, Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.

  • Gen 31:30-33
    4 verses
    75%

    30 Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?

    31 Jacob answered Laban, 'I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.

    32 But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether anything of yours is here with me; and if so, take it.' Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

    33 So 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 30:34
    74%

    34 Laban said, 'Very well, let it be as you have said.'

  • Gen 29:13-15
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    13 When 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.

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

    15 Laban said to Jacob, 'Because you are my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?'

  • Gen 31:42-44
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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 surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.

    43 Laban answered Jacob, 'The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or about the children they have borne?

    44 Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.'

  • Gen 32:20
    73%

    20 He also instructed the second, the third, and all those who followed the herds: 'This is what you are to say to Esau when you meet him.'

  • Gen 29:25-26
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    25 In 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?'

    26 Laban replied, 'It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter before the older one.'

  • Gen 33:10
    73%

    10 Jacob said, 'No, please, if I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. Seeing your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have accepted me.'

  • Gen 30:40
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    40 Jacob separated the lambs and made the rest of the flock face the streaked and the dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Then he kept his own flocks separate and did not put them with Laban's flock.

  • Gen 30:27
    72%

    27 But Laban said to him, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me because of you.'

  • Gen 30:36
    72%

    36 Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to take care of the rest of Laban's flocks.

  • Gen 29:10
    72%

    10 When 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.

  • Gen 29:5
    72%

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