Genesis 29:14
Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.
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- 2 Sam 19:12-13 : 12 You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?' 13 Say to Amasa, 'Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.'"
- Judg 9:2 : 2 "Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, 'Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh."
- Gen 2:23 : 23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man."
- 2 Sam 5:1 : 1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
- Mic 7:5 : 5 Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
- Gen 13:8 : 8 Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
- Gen 29:12 : 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.
- Gen 29:15 : 15 Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"
- Eph 5:30 : 30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
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- Gen 29:10-134 verses81%
10 It 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.
11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.
13 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.
- Gen 29:15-162 verses81%
15 Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"
16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
- Gen 29:19-224 verses79%
19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
21 Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
- Gen 30:27-293 verses76%
27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."
28 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."
29 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
- Gen 29:25-284 verses74%
25 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
26 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."
28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
- Gen 31:25-262 verses74%
25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
26 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
- Gen 31:42-443 verses74%
42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
43 Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
44 Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."
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34 Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word."
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36 He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
- Gen 31:2-32 verses72%
2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
3 Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
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5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."
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36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
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44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;
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51 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
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30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
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30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.