Genesis 31:50

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • Jer 42:5 : 5 Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us.
  • Jer 29:23 : 23 because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn't command them; and I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh.
  • Judg 11:10 : 10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do."
  • 1 Sam 12:5 : 5 He said to them, "Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." They said, "He is witness."
  • Mic 1:2 : 2 Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Matt 19:5-6 : 5 and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?' 6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
  • Lev 18:18 : 18 "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

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  • Gen 31:48-49
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    48Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed

    49and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

  • Gen 31:51-53
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    81%

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

    52May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

    53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

  • Gen 31:42-44
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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?

    44Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."

  • Gen 31:28-33
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    28and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

    29It 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.'

    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.

  • Gen 31:5
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    5and 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.

  • Gen 24:3
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    3I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

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

  • Gen 29:19
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    19Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

  • Gen 24:40-41
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    40He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.

    41Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'

  • Gen 24:37-38
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    72%

    37My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

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

  • Gen 24:7-8
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    7Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

    8If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."

  • Gen 31:36-37
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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?

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

  • Gen 28:1-2
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    1Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

    2Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

  • Gen 30:26
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    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."

  • Gen 31:16
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    16For 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 31:2-3
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    2Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

    3Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

  • Judg 21:7
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    7How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"

  • Gen 30:31
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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.

  • 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 28:6
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    6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"

  • Gen 26:28
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    28They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

  • Gen 34:16
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    16then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

  • Gen 44:29
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    29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

  • Judg 21:1
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    1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife."