Genesis 31:36

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Gen 30:2 : 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?"
  • Gen 34:7 : 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought not to be done.
  • Gen 49:7 : 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
  • Num 16:15 : 15 Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, "Don't respect their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them."
  • 2 Kgs 5:11 : 11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, "Behold, I thought, 'He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.'
  • 2 Kgs 13:19 : 19 The man of God was angry with him, and said, "You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Syria until you had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria just three times."
  • Prov 28:1 : 1 The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
  • Mark 3:5 : 5 When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
  • Eph 4:26 : 26 "Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,
  • Jas 1:19-20 : 19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.

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    37Now 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 31:25-27
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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?

    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 31:1-2
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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 31:30-35
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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.

    35She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for I'm having my period." He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.

  • Gen 31:42-43
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    42Unless 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."

    43Laban 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?

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

  • Gen 30:2
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    2Jacob'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?"

  • Gen 31:19-23
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    19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

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

    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.

  • Gen 31:12
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    12He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

  • Gen 31:51
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    51Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

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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 31:14
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    14Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 30:25-26
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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.

    26Give 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."

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

  • Gen 30:33-34
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    33So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."

    34Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word."

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    28He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."

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    31He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.