Genesis 31:28

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 31:55 : 55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
  • Ruth 1:9 : 9 Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband." Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
  • Ruth 1:14 : 14 They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.
  • 1 Kgs 19:20 : 20 He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." He said to him, "Go back again; for what have I done to you?"
  • Acts 20:37 : 37 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of Yahweh run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; for from henceforth you shall have wars."
  • 1 Sam 13:13 : 13 Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
  • 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.
  • Gen 29:13 : 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 31:3 : 3 Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
  • Gen 31:13 : 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"
  • Gen 31:24 : 24 God 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."

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  • Gen 31:26-27
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    26 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

    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;

  • Gen 31:29-31
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    29 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'

    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.'

  • Gen 31:42-43
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    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 44:27-30
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    27 Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:

    28 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.

    29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

    30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life;

  • 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

  • 34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?--lest I see the evil that will come on my father."

  • 36 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."

  • Gen 31:5-7
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    5 and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

    6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

    7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.

  • 26 His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."

  • 45 until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

  • 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."

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

  • 12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."

  • 38 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

  • 6 Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

  • Gen 31:36-37
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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?

    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.

  • 4 Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'

  • 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."

  • 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 30:29-30
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    29 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

    30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

  • 23 You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'

  • 6 Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"

  • 25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • 2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

  • 38 Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

  • 18 Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you this day.

  • 36 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

  • 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

  • 21 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

  • 38 but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

  • 18 He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"