Laban

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Scripture references

• Genesis 24:29

  Now Rebekah had a brother called Laban...

• Genesis 24:31

  Come in, blessed of Yahweh...

• Genesis 24:50

  Laban and Bethuel replied, 'This is from Yahweh...'

• Genesis 25:20

  sister of Laban the Aramaean.

• Genesis 27:43

  go at once and take refuge with my brother Laban in Haran.

• Genesis 28:2

  Go off to Paddan-Aram, the home of Bethuel your mother's father, and there choose a wife for yourself from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

• Genesis 28:5

  Jacob went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramaean and brother of Rebekah the mother of Jacob and Esau.

• Genesis 29:5

  He asked them, 'Do you know Laban son of Nahor?' They replied, 'We do.'

• Genesis 29:13

  As soon as he heard her speak of his sister's son Jacob, Laban ran to greet him, embraced him, kissed him and took him to his house.

• Genesis 29:14

  Laban said to him, 'You are indeed my bone and flesh!'

• Genesis 29:19

  Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to a stranger; stay with me.'

• Genesis 29:25

  When morning came, it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, 'What have you done to me? Did I not work for you for Rachel? Why then have you tricked me?'

• Genesis 29:27

  Finish this marriage week and I shall give you the other one too in return for your working for me for another seven years.'

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob agreed and, when he had finished the week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

• Genesis 30:27

  Laban replied, 'If I have done what pleases you . . . I have learnt by divination that Yahweh has blessed me because of you.

• Genesis 30:28

  So name your wages,' he added, 'and I will pay.'

• Genesis 30:34

  Laban replied, 'Good, just as you say.'

• Genesis 30:35

  That same day he removed the striped and speckled he-goats and all the spotted and speckled she-goats, every one that had white on it, and all the black sheep, and entrusted these to his sons.

• Genesis 31:1

  Jacob learned that Laban's sons were saying, 'Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father; it is at our father's expense that he has acquired all this wealth,'

• Genesis 31:24

  But God appeared to Laban the Aramaean in a dream that night and said to him, 'On no account say anything whatever to Jacob.'

• Genesis 31:26

  Laban said to Jacob, 'What do you mean by outwitting me and then carrying off my daughters like prisoners of war?

• Genesis 31:30

  Now it may be you really went because you had such a longing for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?'

• Genesis 31:44

  So come, let us make a pact, you and me . . . , and let that serve as a witness between us.'

• Genesis 31:53

  May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor judge between us.'

• Genesis 32:1

  Early next morning, Laban kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then Laban left to return home.