Genesis 31:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 24:10 : 10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.
  • Gen 24:61 : 61 Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and left.
  • 1 Sam 30:17 : 17 But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels.

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  • Gen 31:18
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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.

  • Gen 46:5-7
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    5Then Jacob started out from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.

    6Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.

    7He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters– all his descendants.

  • Gen 32:21-23
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    21So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

    22During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

    23He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.

  • Gen 24:61
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    61Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and left.

  • Gen 31:16
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    16Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

  • Gen 28:1-2
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    1So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him,“You must not marry a Canaanite woman!

    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 36:6
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    6Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the people in his household, his livestock, his animals, and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan and went to a land some distance away from Jacob his brother

  • Gen 30:43
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    43In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

  • 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 28:6-7
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    6Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him,“You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”

    7Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

  • 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 24:10-11
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    10Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.

    11He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

  • Gen 32:15-16
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    15thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

    16He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants,“Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”

  • Gen 31:33-34
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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.

    34(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

  • Gen 28:10
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    10Jacob’s Dream at Bethel Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.

  • Gen 29:1
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    1The Marriages of Jacob So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people.

  • 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 33:1
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    1Jacob Meets Esau Jacob looked up and saw that Esau was coming along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.

  • Gen 31:21
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    21He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 30:25-26
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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.

    26Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you. Then I’ll depart, because you know how hard I’ve worked for you.”

  • Gen 29:21
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    21Finally Jacob said to Laban,“Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. And I want to sleep with her.”