Genesis 31:55

Webster's Bible (1833)

Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

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  • Gen 31:28 : 28 and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
  • Gen 18:33 : 33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
  • Gen 30:25 : 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.
  • Gen 24:60 : 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 28:1 : 1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
  • Gen 31:43 : 43 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?
  • Gen 33:4 : 4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
  • Num 23:5 : 5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.
  • Num 23:8 : 8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom Yahweh has not defied?
  • Num 23:11 : 11 Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether.
  • Num 24:25 : 25 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.
  • Deut 23:5 : 5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
  • Deut 32:36 : 36 For Yahweh will judge his people, Repent himself for his servants; When he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
  • Ruth 1:14 : 14 They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.
  • Ps 76:10 : 10 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
  • Prov 16:7 : 7 When a man's ways please Yahweh, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
  • Acts 28:4-5 : 4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live." 5 However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn't harmed.

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  • Gen 29:11-13
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    11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

    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 31:25-26
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    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?

  • 54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

  • 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.

  • 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,

  • Gen 29:21-23
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    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.

    23 It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

  • Gen 28:5-6
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    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.

    6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"

  • Gen 31:17-18
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    17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

    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.

  • 27 Laban 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."

  • 9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

  • Gen 28:1-2
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    1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

    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.

  • 43 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?

  • 27 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son Is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

  • 31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

  • 30 It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.