Genesis 31:35
Rachel said to her father,“Don’t be angry, my lord. I cannot stand up in your presence because I am having my period.” So he searched thoroughly, but did not find the idols.
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 19:32 : 32 You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
- Exod 20:12 : 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.
- Lev 19:3 : 3 Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
- Gen 18:11-12 : 11 Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.) 12 So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking,“After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?”
- Lev 15:19 : 19 Female Bodily Discharges“‘When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
- 1 Kgs 2:19 : 19 So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, and she sat at his right hand.
- Eph 6:1 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
- 1 Pet 2:18 : 18 Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are perverse.
- 1 Pet 3:6 : 6 like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.
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- Gen 31:30-345 verses87%
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.
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 31:17-193 verses79%
17So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.
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.
- Gen 31:36-372 verses73%
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!
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14Then Rachel and Leah replied to him,“Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?
- Gen 29:24-263 verses70%
24(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)
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.
- Gen 31:4-52 verses70%
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.
- Gen 31:26-272 verses70%
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?
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9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.
- Gen 29:16-172 verses69%
16(Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.
17Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.)
- Gen 30:2-32 verses69%
2Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed,“Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
3She replied,“Here is my servant Bilhah! Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”
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14So she slept beside him until morning. She woke up while it was still dark. Boaz thought,“No one must know that a woman visited the threshing floor.”
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19She left immediately, removed her veil, and put on her widow’s clothes.
- Gen 31:42-432 verses69%
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?
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15But Leah replied,“Wasn’t it enough that you’ve taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes too?”“All right,” Rachel said,“he may go to bed with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
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19Laban replied,“I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”
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6“Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied,“He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”
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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.
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2When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.
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23“Whose daughter are you?” he asked.“Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
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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.”
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12When 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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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.
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37My master made me swear an oath. He said,‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,
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39But I said to my master,‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’
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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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17Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying,‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out before the city’s elders.