Genesis 29:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 24:28 : 28 The young woman ran and told her mother’s household all about these things.
  • Gen 13:8 : 8 Abram said to Lot,“Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.
  • Gen 14:14-16 : 14 When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive, he mobilized his 318 trained men who had been born in his household, and he pursued the invaders as far as Dan. 15 Then, during the night, Abram divided his forces against them and defeated them. He chased them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus. 16 He retrieved all the stolen property. He also brought back his nephew Lot and his possessions, as well as the women and the rest of the people.

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  • Gen 29:13-14
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    13When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban how he was related to him.

    14Then Laban said to him,“You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.

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

    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

    11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.

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

    29(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.

    30When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring and heard his sister Rebekah say,“This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing by the camels near the spring.

  • Gen 29:4-6
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    4Jacob asked them,“My brothers, where are you from?” They replied,“We’re from Haran.”

    5So he said to them,“Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?”“We know him,” they said.

    6“Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied,“He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

  • Gen 31:4
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    4So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

  • Gen 29:28-29
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    28Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah’s bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

    29(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)

  • Gen 29:16
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    16(Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.

  • Gen 27:6
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    6Rebekah said to her son Jacob,“Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,

  • Gen 31:18-20
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    18He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

    19While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

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

  • Gen 29:18-19
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    18Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said,“I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.”

    19Laban replied,“I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

  • Gen 28:2
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    2Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

  • Gen 31:33
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    33So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.

  • Gen 28:5
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    5So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

  • Gen 42:29
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    29They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

  • Gen 30:25
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    25The Flocks of Jacob After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

  • Gen 31:25
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    25Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

  • Gen 33:4
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    4But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

  • Gen 28:7
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    7Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

  • Gen 29:25
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    25In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban,“What in the world have you done to me! Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?”