Genesis 29:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When 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.

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  • Gen 24:29 : 29 (Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.
  • Gen 45:15 : 15 He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After this his brothers talked with him.
  • Exod 4:27 : 27 The LORD said to Aaron,“Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss.
  • Exod 18:7 : 7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; they each asked about the other’s welfare, and then they went into the tent.
  • 2 Sam 19:39 : 39 So all the people crossed the Jordan, as did the king. After the king had kissed him and blessed him, Barzillai returned to his home.
  • Luke 7:45 : 45 You gave me no kiss of greeting, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet.
  • Acts 20:37 : 37 They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,
  • Rom 16:16 : 16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
  • Col 4:5 : 5 Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunities.

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  • Gen 29:9-12
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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.

    12When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

  • Gen 29:14-16
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    14Then Laban said to him,“You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.

    15Then Laban said to Jacob,“Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.”

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

  • 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 31:25-26
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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.

    26“What have you done?” Laban demanded of Jacob.“You’ve deceived me and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war!

  • Gen 31:55
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    55(32:1) Early in the morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.

  • 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 31:22-23
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    22Three days later Laban discovered Jacob had left.

    23So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 29:22-23
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    22So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.

    23In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her.

  • Gen 29:5-6
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    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 31:1-4
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    1Jacob’s Flight from Laban Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining,“Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich at our father’s expense!”

    2When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.

    3The LORD said to Jacob,“Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”

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

  • Gen 29:19
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    19Laban replied,“I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

  • 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 46:29
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    29Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.

  • 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,