Genesis 31:42

Webster's Bible (1833)

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."

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  • Gen 31:53 : 53 The 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 29:32 : 32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."
  • Gen 31:29 : 29 It 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.'
  • Gen 31:24 : 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."
  • Ps 124:1-3 : 1 > If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, Let Israel now say, 2 If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, When men rose up against us; 3 Then they would have swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
  • Isa 8:13 : 13 Yahweh of hosts, him shall you sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
  • Jude 1:9 : 9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • 1 Chr 12:17 : 17 David went out to meet them, and answered them, If you be come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if [you be come] to betray me to my adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
  • Ps 31:7 : 7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, For you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
  • Ps 76:11-12 : 11 Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared. 12 He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.
  • Gen 31:5 : 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 31:12 : 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.
  • Gen 11:5 : 5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
  • Gen 16:11 : 11 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
  • Gen 16:13 : 13 She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"
  • Gen 27:33 : 33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."

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  • Gen 31:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

    6You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

    7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.

  • Gen 31:26-32
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    80%

    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;

    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 sore longed after 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.'

    32With 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.

  • Gen 32:9
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    9Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.'

  • Gen 30:25-31
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    77%

    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."

    27Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."

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

    29He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me.

    30For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

    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 31:50
    77%

    50If you will afflict my daughters, and if you will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."

  • Gen 31:43
    76%

    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?

  • Gen 31:53
    76%

    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 31:41
    76%

    41These twenty years have I been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

  • Gen 31:11-14
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    75%

    11The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'

    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.

    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth."

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

  • 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 31:1-3
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    75%

    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.

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

  • Gen 32:11
    75%

    11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.

  • Gen 29:15
    74%

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

  • Gen 33:10
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    10Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

  • Gen 24:27
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    27He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."

  • Gen 26:24
    74%

    24Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

  • Gen 31:9
    74%

    9Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

  • Gen 44:34
    74%

    34For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me? Lest I see the evil that will come on my father."

  • Gen 28:21
    73%

    21so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

  • Gen 28:15
    73%

    15Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."

  • Gen 43:14
    73%

    14May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."