Genesis 31:2
When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.
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- Gen 4:5 : 5 but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.
- Gen 30:27 : 27 But Laban said to him,“If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me on account of you.”
- Exod 4:10 : 10 Then Moses said to the LORD,“O my Lord, I am not an eloquent man, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
- Deut 19:4 : 4 Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, if he has accidentally killed another without hating him at the time of the accident.
- Deut 28:54 : 54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.
- 1 Sam 18:9-9 : 9 So Saul was keeping an eye on David from that day onward. 10 The next day an evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul and he prophesied within his house. Now David was playing the lyre as usual. There was a spear in Saul’s hand, 11 and Saul threw the spear, thinking,“I’ll nail David to the wall!” But David escaped from him on two different occasions.
- 1 Sam 19:7 : 7 Then Jonathan called David and told him all these things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he served him as he had done formerly.
- Dan 3:19 : 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated.
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- Gen 31:3-53 verses82%
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.
5There he said to them,“I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
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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!”
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12Then he said,‘Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.
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51“Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob.
- Gen 31:24-263 verses76%
24But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him,“Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.”
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!
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36Jacob became angry and argued with Laban.“What did I do wrong?” he demanded of Laban.“What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit?
- Gen 31:20-223 verses75%
20Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.
21He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
22Three days later Laban discovered Jacob had left.
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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 31:30-334 verses75%
30Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”
31“I left secretly because I was afraid!” Jacob replied to Laban.“I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.
32Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.”(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)
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.
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34“Agreed!” said Laban,“It will be as you say.”
- Gen 29:13-153 verses74%
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.
15Then Laban said to Jacob,“Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.”
- Gen 31:42-443 verses74%
42If the God of my father– the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears– had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”
43Laban replied to Jacob,“These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today or the children to whom they have given birth?
44So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.”
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20You must also say,‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought,“I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”
- Gen 29:25-262 verses73%
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?”
26“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied,“to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.
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10“No, please take them,” Jacob said.“If I have found favor in your sight, accept my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, it is as if I have seen the face of God.
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40Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks.
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27But Laban said to him,“If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me on account of you.”
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36Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.
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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.
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5So he said to them,“Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?”“We know him,” they said.