Genesis 29:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

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  • Gen 24:28 : 28 The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words.
  • Gen 13:8 : 8 Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
  • Gen 14:14-16 : 14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. 15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

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  • Gen 29:13-14
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    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.

    14 Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.

  • Gen 29:9-11
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    9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

    10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

    11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

  • Gen 24:28-30
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    28 The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words.

    29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

    30 It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

  • Gen 29:4-6
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    4 Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran."

    5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

    6 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."

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

  • Gen 29:28-29
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    28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

    29 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

  • 16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

  • 6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

  • Gen 31:18-20
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    18 and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered 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{teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.} that were her father's.

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

  • Gen 29:18-19
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    18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

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

  • 2 Arise, 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.

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

  • 5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

  • 29 They came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

  • 25 It 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.

  • 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.

  • 4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

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

  • 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?"