Genesis 31:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

And have not allowed me to kiss my sons and my daughters? You have now done foolishly in so doing.

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  • Gen 31:55 : 55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned to his place.
  • Ruth 1:9 : 9 The LORD grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voices and wept.
  • Ruth 1:14 : 14 And they lifted up their voices and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth held onto her.
  • 1 Kgs 19:20 : 20 And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray you, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. And he said to him, Go back again, for what have I done to you?
  • Acts 20:37 : 37 Then they all wept freely, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars.
  • 1 Sam 13:13 : 13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which he commanded you: for now the LORD would have established your kingdom upon Israel forever.
  • Exod 4:27 : 27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
  • Gen 29:13 : 13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.
  • Gen 31:3 : 3 And the LORD said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers, and to your kindred; and I will be with you.
  • Gen 31:13 : 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, and where you vowed a vow unto me: now arise, get out of this land, and return unto the land of your kindred.
  • Gen 31:24 : 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, Beware that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

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  • Gen 31:26-27
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    79%

    26 And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done, that you have stolen away secretly from me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?

    27 Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with joy, and with songs, with tambourine, and with harp?

  • Gen 31:29-31
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    78%

    29 It is in my power to do you harm: but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Beware that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

    30 And now, though you would certainly be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, yet why have you stolen my gods?

    31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Perhaps you would take your daughters from me by force.

  • Gen 31:42-43
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    42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.

    43 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

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

    28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since:

    29 And if you take this also from me, and harm befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

    30 Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

  • 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.

  • 34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad is not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come upon my father.

  • 36 And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

  • Gen 31:5-7
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    5 And said to them, I see your father's expression, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

    6 And you know that with all my strength I have served your father.

    7 And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to harm me.

  • 26 And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.

  • 45 Until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him: then I will send and get you from there: why should I be deprived of both of you in one day?

  • 26 "Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you know my service which I have done for you."

  • 55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned to his place.

  • 12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will seem to him as a deceiver; and I will bring a curse upon myself, and not a blessing.

  • 38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left: if harm befalls him on the journey in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

  • 6 Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father who has bought you? Has he not made you, and established you?

  • Gen 31:36-37
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    36 And Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me?

    37 Whereas you have searched all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? set it here before my brethren and your brethren, that they may judge between us both.

  • 4 Will you not from this time call to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?

  • 50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and you.

  • 16 For all the riches which God has taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatever God has said to you, do.

  • Gen 30:29-30
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    29 He said to him, "You know how I have served you and how your cattle have been with me."

    30 "For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased to a multitude, and the LORD has blessed you since my coming. Now, when shall I provide for my own house also?"

  • 23 And you said to your servants, Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.

  • 6 And Israel said, Why did you deal so wrongfully with me, as to tell the man whether you had yet a brother?

  • 25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • 2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

  • 38 And Esau said to his father, Have you but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

  • 18 Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD, nor execute his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you today.

  • 36 And he said, Is he not rightly named Jacob? for he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?

  • 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

  • 21 And you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him.

  • 38 but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.'

  • 18 And he came to his father and said, My father: and he said, Here I am; who are you, my son?