Genesis 31:43

Webster's Bible (1833)

Laban 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?

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  • Gen 31:1-2
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    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.

  • Gen 31:30-33
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    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.

    33Laban 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 31:25-26
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    25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

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

  • Gen 31:44
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    44Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."

  • 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 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 31:50-51
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    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."

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

  • 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 29:14-16
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    14Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.

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

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

  • Gen 30:33-35
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    33So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Everyone that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."

    34Laban said, "Behold, I desire it to be according to your word."

    35That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

  • Gen 31:42
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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."

  • Gen 30:26-31
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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."

    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 30:42-43
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    42but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

    43The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • 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 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 31:18
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    18and 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.

  • Gen 31:9
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    9Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

  • Gen 29:6
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    6He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."