LABAN

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• Genesis 22:23

  Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

• Genesis 24:15

  Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.

• Genesis 24:29

  Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

• Genesis 24:30

  When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

• Genesis 24:31

  He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”

• Genesis 24:32

  The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

• Genesis 24:33

  Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.” He said, “Speak on.”

• Genesis 28:5

  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.

• Genesis 29:12

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

• Genesis 29:13

  When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

• Genesis 29:14

  Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” He lived with him for a month.

• Genesis 29:15

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

• Genesis 29:16

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

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

• Genesis 29:19

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

• Genesis 29:20

  Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

• Genesis 29:21

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

• Genesis 29:22

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

• Genesis 29:23

  In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

• Genesis 29:24

  Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, 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?”

• Genesis 29:26

  Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Genesis 29:27

  Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

• Genesis 29:29

  Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 30:27

  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.”

• Genesis 30:28

  He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”

• Genesis 30:29

  He said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

• Genesis 30:30

  For 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?”

• Genesis 30:31

  He 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.

• Genesis 30:32

  I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

• Genesis 30:33

  So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”

• Genesis 30:34

  Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

• Genesis 30:35

  That 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.

• Genesis 30:36

  He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

• Genesis 30:37

  Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

• Genesis 30:38

  He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

• Genesis 30:39

  The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

• Genesis 30:41

  Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

• Genesis 30:42

  but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

• Genesis 30:43

  The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

• Genesis 31:1

  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.”

• Genesis 31:2

  Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

• Genesis 31:3

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

• Genesis 31:4

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

• Genesis 31:5

  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.

• Genesis 31:6

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

• Genesis 31:7

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

• Genesis 31:8

  If he said this, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.

• Genesis 31:9

  Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

• Genesis 31:10

  During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.

• Genesis 31:11

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

• Genesis 31:12

  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.

• Genesis 31:13

  I 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.’”

• Genesis 31:14

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

• Genesis 31:15

  Aren’t we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

• Genesis 31:16

  For 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.”

• Genesis 31:17

  Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

• Genesis 31:18

  and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 31:19

  Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

• Genesis 31:20

  Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.

• Genesis 31:21

  So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

• Genesis 31:22

  Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.

• Genesis 31:23

  He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

• Genesis 31:24

  God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

• Genesis 31:25

  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.

• Genesis 31:26

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

• Genesis 31:27

  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;

• Genesis 31:28

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

• Genesis 31:29

  It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

• Genesis 31:30

  Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

• Genesis 31:31

  Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

• Genesis 31:32

  Anyone you find your gods with 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.

• Genesis 31:33

  Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

• Genesis 31:34

  Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.

• Genesis 31:35

  She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

• Genesis 31:36

  Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

• Genesis 31:37

  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.

• Genesis 31:38

  “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.

• Genesis 31:39

  That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

• Genesis 31:40

  This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

• Genesis 31:41

  These twenty years I have 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.

• Genesis 31:42

  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.”

• Genesis 31:43

  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 today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

• Genesis 31:44

  Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.”

• Genesis 31:45

  Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

• Genesis 31:46

  Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

• Genesis 31:47

  Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

• Genesis 31:48

  Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed

• Genesis 31:49

  and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

• Genesis 31:50

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

• Genesis 31:51

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

• Genesis 31:52

  May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

• Genesis 31:53

  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.

• Genesis 31:54

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

• Genesis 31:55

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