Genesis 31:26

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Sam 30:2 : 2 and had taken captive the women and all who were therein, both small and great. They didn't kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.
  • John 18:35 : 35 Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?"
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
  • Gen 4:10 : 10 Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
  • Gen 12:18 : 18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
  • Gen 20:9-9 : 9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!" 10 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"
  • Gen 26:10 : 10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
  • Gen 31:16 : 16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."
  • Gen 31:36 : 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?
  • Gen 34:29 : 29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
  • Josh 7:19 : 19 Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don't hide it from me!"
  • 1 Sam 14:43 : 43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done!" Jonathan told him, and said, "I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die."
  • 1 Sam 17:29 : 29 David said, "What have I now done? Is there not a cause?"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 31:27-28
    2 verses
    87%

    27 Why 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;

    28 and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

  • Gen 31:30-33
    4 verses
    85%

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

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

    32 Anyone 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.

    33 Laban 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.

  • Gen 31:18-23
    6 verses
    83%

    18 and 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.

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

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

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

    22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.

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

  • Gen 31:25
    81%

    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.

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    81%

    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?

    37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

  • Gen 31:42-43
    2 verses
    78%

    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?

  • Gen 31:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1 He 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."

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

  • Gen 29:25
    77%

    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?"

  • Gen 29:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    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 30:26
    74%

    26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."

  • Gen 31:50-51
    2 verses
    74%

    50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."

    51 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

  • Gen 31:4
    73%

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

  • Gen 29:13
    73%

    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 29:21
    73%

    21 Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."