Genesis 31:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You didn’t even allow me to kiss my daughters and my grandchildren goodbye. You have acted foolishly!

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 31:55 : 55 (32:1) Early in the morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.
  • Ruth 1:9 : 9 May the LORD enable each of you to find security in the home of a new husband!” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept loudly.
  • Ruth 1:14 : 14 Again they wept loudly. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung tightly to her.
  • 1 Kgs 19:20 : 20 He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said,“Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you.” Elijah said to him,“Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”
  • Acts 20:37 : 37 They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 Certainly the LORD watches the whole earth carefully and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war.”
  • 1 Sam 13:13 : 13 Then Samuel said to Saul,“You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed the commandment that the LORD your God gave you. Had you done that, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever!
  • 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.
  • Gen 29:13 : 13 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.
  • Gen 31:3 : 3 The LORD said to Jacob,“Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”
  • Gen 31:13 : 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.’”
  • Gen 31:24 : 24 But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him,“Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 31:26-27
    2 verses
    79%

    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!

    27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?

  • Gen 31:29-31
    3 verses
    78%

    29I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night,‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’

    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.

  • Gen 31:42-43
    2 verses
    74%

    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?

  • Gen 44:27-30
    4 verses
    73%

    27“Then your servant my father said to us,‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

    28The first disappeared and I said,“He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.

    29If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’

    30“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us– his very life is bound up in his son’s life.

  • Gen 27:8
    73%

    8Now then, my son, do exactly what I tell you!

  • Gen 44:34
    72%

    34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”

  • Gen 42:36
    72%

    36Their father Jacob said to them,“You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

  • Gen 31:5-7
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

    6You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could,

    7but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.

  • Gen 27:26
    71%

    26Then his father Isaac said to him,“Come here and kiss me, my son.”

  • Gen 27:45
    71%

    45Stay there until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

  • Gen 30:26
    71%

    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 31:55
    71%

    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 27:12
    71%

    12My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”

  • Gen 42:38
    71%

    38But Jacob replied,“My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.”

  • Deut 32:6
    71%

    6Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your Creator? He has made you and established you.

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    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?

    37When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? Set it here before my relatives and yours, and let them settle the dispute between the two of us!

  • Jer 3:4
    70%

    4Even now you say to me,‘You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

  • Gen 31:50
    70%

    50If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize that God is witness to your actions.”

  • Gen 31:16
    70%

    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 30:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied,“and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

    30Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”

  • Gen 44:23
    70%

    23But you said to your servants,‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’

  • Gen 43:6
    70%

    6Israel said,“Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?”

  • Prov 17:25
    70%

    25A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

  • Gen 30:2
    70%

    2Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed,“Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

  • Gen 27:38
    70%

    38Esau said to his father,“Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.

  • 1 Sam 28:18
    70%

    18Since you did not obey the LORD and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the LORD has done this thing to you today.

  • Gen 27:36
    69%

    36Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”

  • Gen 48:10
    69%

    10Now Israel’s eyes were failing because of his age; he was not able to see well. So Joseph brought his sons near to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.

  • Gen 44:21
    69%

    21“Then you told your servants,‘Bring him down to me so I can see him.’

  • Gen 24:38
    69%

    38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

  • Gen 27:18
    69%

    18He went to his father and said,“My father!” Isaac replied,“Here I am. Which are you, my son?”