Genesis 29:13

World English Bible (2000)

It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

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  • Gen 24:29 : 29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
  • Gen 45:15 : 15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
  • Exod 4:27 : 27 Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.
  • Exod 18:7 : 7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.
  • 2 Sam 19:39 : 39 All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.
  • Luke 7:45 : 45 You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.
  • Acts 20:37 : 37 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,
  • Rom 16:16 : 16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.
  • Col 4:5 : 5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

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  • Gen 29:9-12
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    9While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

    10It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

    11Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

    12Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

  • Gen 29:14-16
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    14Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.

    15Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

    16Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

  • Gen 33:4
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    4Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

  • Gen 31:25-26
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    25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

    26Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

  • Gen 31:55
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    55Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

  • Gen 24:28-30
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    28The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words.

    29Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

    30It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

  • Gen 31:22-23
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    22Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.

    23He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

  • Gen 29:22-23
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    22Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

    23It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

  • Gen 29:5-6
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    5He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

    6He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."

  • Gen 31:1-4
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    1He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."

    2Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

    3Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

    4Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

  • Gen 29:19
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    19Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

  • Gen 28:5
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    5Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

  • Gen 46:29
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    29Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

  • Gen 42:29
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    29They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,