Genesis 31

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1And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.26 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 4:4, Proverbs 27:4, Jeremiah 9:23, Job 31:31, Proverbs 14:30
2And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.15 cross-references: Daniel 3:19, 1 Samuel 18:9–11, Genesis 4:5, Genesis 30:27, 1 Samuel 19:7
3And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.29 cross-references: Genesis 28:15, Genesis 32:9, Isaiah 41:10, Hebrews 13:5, Genesis 31:13
4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
5And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.12 cross-references: Genesis 31:2–3, Genesis 31:42, Genesis 48:15, Genesis 31:53, Genesis 50:17
6And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.9 cross-references: Genesis 30:29, Colossians 3:22–25, Genesis 31:38–42, Ephesians 6:5–8, Titus 2:9–10
7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.23 cross-references: Genesis 31:41, Genesis 31:29, Zechariah 8:23, Nehemiah 4:12, Psalms 37:28
8If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.3 cross-references: Genesis 30:32
9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.14 cross-references: Genesis 31:1, Genesis 31:16, Esther 8:1–2, Proverbs 13:22, Matthew 20:15
10And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.10 cross-references: Deuteronomy 13:1, Genesis 31:24, Genesis 20:6, Numbers 12:6, Genesis 28:12
11And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.21 cross-references: Genesis 31:13, Isaiah 58:9, Genesis 18:17, Genesis 22:1, 1 Samuel 3:6
12And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.12 cross-references: Exodus 3:7, Genesis 31:42, Deuteronomy 24:15, Ecclesiastes 5:8, Acts 7:34
13I am the God of Beth–el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.13 cross-references: Genesis 31:3, Genesis 32:9, Genesis 28:12–22, Genesis 35:7
14And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?7 cross-references: Genesis 2:24, Ruth 4:11, Genesis 29:29, Genesis 29:24
15Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.8 cross-references: Genesis 29:15–20, Genesis 29:27–30, Nehemiah 5:8, Exodus 21:7–11, Genesis 31:41
16For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.7 cross-references: Genesis 31:9, Psalms 45:10, Genesis 30:35 – Genesis 31:1
17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;6 cross-references: 1 Samuel 30:17, Genesis 24:61, Genesis 24:10
18And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan–aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.11 cross-references: Genesis 28:21, Genesis 27:1–2, Genesis 27:41, Genesis 35:27–29
19And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.28 cross-references: 1 Samuel 19:13, Genesis 31:30, Hosea 3:4, Ezekiel 21:21, Genesis 35:2
20And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
21So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.20 cross-references: 2 Kings 12:17, Genesis 31:23, Luke 9:51–53, Genesis 37:25, Deuteronomy 3:12
22And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.3 cross-references: Exodus 14:5–31, Job 5:12–13, Genesis 30:36
23And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.11 cross-references: Exodus 2:11, Genesis 13:8, Exodus 2:13, Genesis 24:27
24And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.40 cross-references: Genesis 24:50, Genesis 20:3, Genesis 31:29, Genesis 31:42, Numbers 24:13
25Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.3 cross-references: Hebrews 11:9, Genesis 12:8, Genesis 33:18
26And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?18 cross-references: 1 Samuel 30:2, Genesis 12:18, Genesis 20:9–10, Genesis 2:24, Joshua 7:19
27Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?16 cross-references: Exodus 15:20, Judges 6:27, Genesis 31:3–5, Genesis 24:59–60, Proverbs 26:23–26
28And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.16 cross-references: Genesis 31:55, Ruth 1:14, Acts 20:37, 1 Kings 19:20, Genesis 29:13
29It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.24 cross-references: Genesis 31:53, Genesis 31:42, Genesis 31:24, Genesis 28:13, Joshua 24:2–3
30And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?23 cross-references: Genesis 31:19, Judges 18:24, Jeremiah 10:11, 2 Samuel 5:21, Jeremiah 43:12
31And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.5 cross-references: Proverbs 29:25, Genesis 31:26–27, Genesis 20:11
32With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.17 cross-references: Genesis 31:23, 1 Samuel 12:3–5, Genesis 31:30, Genesis 31:19, Genesis 44:9–12
33And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.4 cross-references: Genesis 24:28, Genesis 24:67
34Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.8 cross-references: Genesis 31:17, Genesis 31:19
35And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.12 cross-references: Leviticus 19:32, Exodus 20:12, Leviticus 19:3, Ephesians 6:1, Genesis 18:11–12
36And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?15 cross-references: Ephesians 4:26, Genesis 49:7, 2 Kings 5:11, 2 Kings 13:19, James 1:19–20
37Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.13 cross-references: 1 Peter 2:12, Hebrews 13:18, Matthew 18:16, 1 Peter 3:16, 1 Corinthians 6:4–5
38This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.15 cross-references: Genesis 30:27, Ezekiel 34:2–4, Genesis 30:30, Deuteronomy 28:4, Exodus 23:26
39That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.11 cross-references: Luke 2:8, Exodus 22:31, 1 Samuel 17:34–35, Exodus 22:10–13, Leviticus 22:8
40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.15 cross-references: 1 Peter 5:2–4, Hebrews 13:7, John 21:15–17, Luke 2:8, Hosea 12:12
41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.18 cross-references: Genesis 31:7, 1 Corinthians 15:10, Genesis 29:18–30, 2 Corinthians 11:26, Genesis 30:33–40
42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.41 cross-references: Psalms 31:7, Genesis 31:29, Genesis 31:53, Genesis 29:32, Psalms 124:1–3
43And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
44Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.18 cross-references: Joshua 24:25–27, Joshua 22:27, Genesis 31:48, 1 Samuel 20:14–17, Genesis 21:22–32
45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.5 cross-references: Genesis 28:18–22
46And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.11 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 3:5, Joshua 7:26, Joshua 4:5–9, Genesis 31:37, Joshua 4:20–24
47And Laban called it Jegar–sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.4 cross-references: Hebrews 12:1
48And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;12 cross-references: Joshua 24:27, Joshua 13:8–9, Deuteronomy 2:36, Deuteronomy 3:16, Genesis 31:23
49And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.10 cross-references: Judges 11:29, Judges 10:17, 1 Samuel 7:5–6, Judges 11:11, Hosea 5:1
50If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.16 cross-references: Jeremiah 42:5, Jeremiah 29:23, Micah 1:2, Judges 11:10, 1 Thessalonians 2:5
51And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
52This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.6 cross-references: Genesis 31:48, Genesis 31:44–45
53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.35 cross-references: Genesis 31:42, Genesis 16:5, Joshua 24:2, Genesis 11:24–29, Exodus 3:6
54Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.20 cross-references: Exodus 18:12, Genesis 37:25, 2 Samuel 3:20–21, Genesis 26:30, Genesis 21:8
55And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.26 cross-references: Genesis 31:28, Genesis 18:33, Genesis 30:25, Numbers 23:5, Psalms 76:10

Chapters most linked to Genesis 31

People in Genesis 31

Jacob, Laban, God, Rachel, Leah, Isaac, Abraham, Nahor

Places in Genesis 31

Gilead, Galeed, Bethel, Paddan-aram, Canaan, Euphrates, Jegar-sahadutha, Mizpah

Hard questions about Genesis 31

Could peeled rods make Jacob’s flocks bear striped and spotted young?