Genesis 31:25

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • Gen 12:8 : 8 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
  • Gen 33:18 : 18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

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  • Gen 31:18-24
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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.

    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.

    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."

  • 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 31:31-33
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    31 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'

    32 With whoever you find your gods, he 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 maid-servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

  • 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 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 31:47-48
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    47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,{"Jegar Sahadutha" means "Witness Heap" in Aramaic.} but Jacob called it Galeed.{"Galeed" means "Witness Heap" in Hebrew.}

    48 Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed

  • Gen 31:1-4
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    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.

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

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

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

  • 22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

  • 12 He 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?"