Genesis 31:28

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You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing.

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  • Ruth 1:9 : 9 May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband." She kissed them goodbye, and they lifted up their voices and wept.
  • Ruth 1:14 : 14 They lifted up their voices and wept again. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
  • 1 Kgs 19:20 : 20 Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, 'Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.' Elijah said to him, 'Go back, for what have I done to you?'
  • Acts 20:37 : 37 They all wept loudly as they embraced Paul and kissed him.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the natural person does not accept the things of God's Spirit, because they are foolishness to him. He cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of the LORD roam throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, you will face wars.
  • 1 Sam 13:13 : 13 Samuel said to Saul, "You have acted foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, which He gave you. If you had, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.
  • Gen 29:13 : 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.
  • Gen 31:3 : 3 Then the LORD said to Jacob, 'Return to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you.'
  • Gen 31:13 : 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to the land of your birth.'
  • Gen 31:24 : 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.'
  • Exod 4:27 : 27 The LORD said to Aaron, 'Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.' So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

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  • Gen 31:26-27
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    26Then Laban said to Jacob, 'What have you done? You deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives taken in war.

    27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? You didn’t even let me know so I could send you away with joy and singing, to the music of tambourines and harps.

  • Gen 31:29-31
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    78%

    29I have the power to harm you, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

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

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

  • Gen 31:42-43
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    74%

    42If 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.

    43Laban 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?

  • Gen 44:27-30
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    27Then your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.'

    28'One of them went away from me, and I said, "Surely he has been torn to pieces," and I have not seen him since.'

    29'If you take this one also from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to the grave in sorrow.'

    30So now, if I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—since his life is so closely bound up with the boy's life—

  • Gen 27:8
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    8Now, my son, listen to my voice and do what I command you.

  • Gen 44:34
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    34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come upon my father.

  • Gen 42:36
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    36Their father Jacob said to them, 'You have deprived me of my children! Joseph is gone; Simeon is gone; and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!'

  • Gen 31:5-7
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    5He 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.'

    6You know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.

    7Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not let him harm me.

  • Gen 27:26
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    26Then Isaac, his father, said to him, 'Come near now, and kiss me, my son.'

  • Gen 27:45
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    45When your brother's anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him, I will send for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?'

  • Gen 30:26
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    26‘Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, so that I may go. You know how hard I have worked for you.’

  • Gen 27:12
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    12'What if my father touches me? Then I will appear to him as a deceiver and bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.'

  • Gen 42:38
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    38But Jacob said, 'My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow.'

  • Deut 32:6
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    6Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, your Creator, the One who made you and established you?

  • Gen 31:36-37
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    36Then Jacob became angry and confronted Laban. 'What is my crime?' he asked. 'What sin have I committed that you have pursued me?

    37You have searched through all my belongings. What have you found that belongs to your household? Place it here in front of my relatives and yours, and let them judge between us.

  • Jer 3:4
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    4Have you not just now called to me, 'My Father, you are the friend of my youth'?

  • Gen 31:50
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    50If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.'

  • Gen 31:16
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    16Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you to do.'

  • Gen 30:29-30
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    29Jacob said to him, 'You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.'

    30For you had little before I came, but now it has increased greatly. The LORD has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when can I provide for my own household?

  • Gen 44:23
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    23But you said to your servants, 'If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.'

  • Gen 43:6
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    6Israel said, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man that you had another brother?”

  • Prov 17:25
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    25A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

  • Gen 30:2
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    2Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, 'Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?'

  • Gen 27:38
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    38Esau said to his father, 'Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!' Then Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

  • 1 Sam 28:18
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    18Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD or carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, the LORD has done this to you today.

  • Gen 27:36
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    36Esau said, 'Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice: He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!' Then he asked, 'Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?'

  • Gen 48:10
    69%

    10Now Israel’s eyes were failing due to old age—he could not see well. Joseph brought the boys near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

  • Gen 44:21
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    21Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me so that I may set my eyes on him.'"

  • Gen 24:38
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    38Instead, you must go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'

  • Gen 27:18
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    18Jacob went to his father and said, 'My father.' And Isaac said, 'Here I am. Who are you, my son?'