Genesis 31:20

World English Bible (2000)

Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him that he was running away.

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  • Gen 31:21-27
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    21So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

    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.

    24God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."

    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?

    27Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

  • Gen 31:18-19
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    18and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

    19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

  • Gen 31:30-34
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    30Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

    31Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'

    32Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.

    33Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

    34Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them.

  • Gen 31:1-2
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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.

  • Gen 31:36
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    36Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after 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 27:43
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    43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

  • Gen 29:12-13
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    12Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

    13It 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 29:25
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    25It 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?"

  • Gen 30:25
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    25It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

  • Gen 28:7
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    7and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.