Genesis 31:27

Webster's Bible (1833)

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;

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  • Exod 15:20 : 20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.
  • Judg 6:27 : 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
  • Job 21:11-14 : 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. 12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. 13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. 14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.
  • Prov 26:23-26 : 23 Like silver dross on an earthen vessel Are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart. 24 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, But he harbors evil in his heart. 25 When his speech is charming, don't believe him; For there are seven abominations in his heart: 26 His malice may be concealed by deception, But his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
  • Gen 4:21 : 21 His brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.
  • Gen 24:59-60 : 59 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men. 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
  • Gen 31:3-5 : 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, 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.
  • Gen 31:20-21 : 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.
  • Gen 31:31 : 31 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'

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  • Gen 31:25-26
    2 verses
    87%

    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.

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

  • Gen 31:30-33
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    30 Now, you want to be gone, because you sore longed after 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.'

    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.

  • Gen 31:18-23
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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.

  • Gen 31:28
    79%

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

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Gen 29:25
    75%

    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?"

  • Gen 31:42
    74%

    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."

  • Gen 27:45
    74%

    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?"

  • Gen 30:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    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."

  • Gen 29:15
    73%

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

  • Gen 27:43
    73%

    43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

  • Gen 31:4
    72%

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

  • Gen 29:12-13
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    71%

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

    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 31:1-2
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    71%

    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.

  • Gen 29:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Gen 29:19
    71%

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

  • Gen 28:2
    71%

    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.

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