Genesis 31 (NET)

Genesis 31:1¹Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining, “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich at our father’s expense!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 4:41 Pet 1:241 Tim 6:4Esth 5:11Ezek 16:44Gen 31:8-9Gen 45:13Isa 5:14Jer 9:23Job 31:24-25

Genesis 31:2²When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 3:191 Sam 18:9-11Gen 4:51 Sam 19:7Gen 30:27Deut 19:4Deut 28:54Exod 4:10

Genesis 31:3³The Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 28:15Gen 32:9Heb 13:5Gen 31:13Isa 41:10Ps 50:15Gen 21:22Gen 13:15Gen 26:24Gen 26:3-5

Genesis 31:4⁴So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 31:5⁵There he said to them, “I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:2-3Gen 31:42Gen 31:53Gen 48:15Gen 32:9Gen 50:17Gen 21:22Gen 31:13

Genesis 31:6⁶You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 30:29Eph 6:5-8Col 3:22-25Gen 31:38-42Titus 2:9-101 Pet 2:18

Genesis 31:7⁷but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:29Gen 31:41Neh 4:12Num 14:22Ps 37:28Zech 8:23Gen 20:6Isa 4:1Isa 54:17Job 1:10

Genesis 31:8⁸If he said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said, ‘The streaked animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 30:32

Genesis 31:9⁹In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:1Gen 31:16Prov 13:22Esth 8:1-2Matt 20:15Ps 50:10

Genesis 31:10¹⁰“Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 13:11 Kgs 3:5Gen 20:6Gen 28:12Gen 30:39Gen 31:24Num 12:6

Genesis 31:11¹¹In the dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ ‘Here I am!’ I replied.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:13Isa 58:91 Sam 3:161 Sam 3:41 Sam 3:61 Sam 3:8Exod 3:4Gen 18:17Gen 22:1Gen 31:5

Genesis 31:12¹²Then he said, ‘Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:7Deut 24:15Gen 31:42Acts 7:34Eccl 5:8Eph 6:9Exod 3:9Gen 30:37-43Lev 19:13Ps 12:5

Genesis 31:13¹³I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:3Gen 32:9Gen 28:12-22Gen 35:7

Genesis 31:14¹⁴Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 2:24Ruth 4:11Gen 29:24Gen 29:29

Genesis 31:15¹⁵Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 29:15-20Exod 21:7-11Gen 29:27-30Gen 30:26Gen 31:41Neh 5:8

Genesis 31:16¹⁶Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 30:35-31:1Gen 31:9Ps 45:10

Genesis 31:17¹⁷So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 30:17Gen 24:10Gen 24:61

Genesis 31:18¹⁸He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 27:1-2Gen 27:41Gen 28:21Gen 35:27-29

Genesis 31:19¹⁹While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 19:13Gen 31:30Hos 3:4Ezek 21:21Gen 35:2Gen 31:32Gen 31:34Judg 17:4-5Judg 18:14-24Josh 24:2

Genesis 31:20²⁰Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 31:21²¹He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 12:171 Kgs 17:1Deut 3:12Gen 15:18Gen 2:14Gen 31:23Gen 37:25Gen 46:28Jer 50:5Josh 13:8-9

Genesis 31:22²²Three days later Laban discovered Jacob had left.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 14:5-31Gen 30:36Job 5:12-13

Genesis 31:23²³So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 2:11Exod 2:13Gen 13:8Gen 24:27

Genesis 31:24²⁴But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him, “Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 24:50Gen 20:3Gen 31:29Gen 31:42Num 24:132 Sam 13:22Matt 27:191 Kgs 3:5Deut 26:5Gen 28:5

Genesis 31:25²⁵Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:8Gen 33:18Heb 11:9

Genesis 31:26²⁶“What have you done?” Laban demanded of Jacob. “You’ve deceived me and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 30:21 Sam 14:431 Sam 17:29Gen 12:18Gen 2:24Gen 20:9-10Gen 26:10Gen 3:13Gen 31:16Gen 31:36

Genesis 31:27²⁷Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:20Gen 24:59-60Gen 31:20-21Gen 31:3-5Gen 31:31Gen 4:21Job 21:11-14Judg 6:27Prov 26:23-26

Genesis 31:28²⁸You didn’t even allow me to kiss my daughters and my grandchildren goodbye. You have acted foolishly!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:551 Kgs 19:20Acts 20:37Ruth 1:141 Cor 2:141 Sam 13:132 Chr 16:9Exod 4:27Gen 29:13Gen 31:13

Genesis 31:29²⁹I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, ‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:42Gen 31:53Gen 28:13Gen 31:24Josh 24:2-32 Kgs 19:10Acts 5:38-39Acts 9:5Dan 2:47Dan 3:28

Genesis 31:30³⁰Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 10:11Gen 31:19Judg 18:241 Sam 5:2-62 Sam 5:21Exod 12:12Isa 37:19Isa 46:1-2Jer 43:12Judg 6:31

Genesis 31:31³¹“I left secretly because I was afraid!” Jacob replied to Laban. “I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 29:25Gen 20:11Gen 31:26-27

Genesis 31:32³²Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.” (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 12:3-5Gen 31:19Gen 31:23Gen 31:30Gen 44:9-121 Sam 14:24-292 Cor 12:17-192 Cor 8:20-21Gen 19:7Gen 30:33

Genesis 31:33³³So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 24:28Gen 24:67

Genesis 31:34³⁴(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:19Gen 31:17

Genesis 31:35³⁵Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord. I cannot stand up in your presence because I am having my period.” So he searched thoroughly, but did not find the idols.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 19:32Exod 20:121 Kgs 2:191 Pet 2:181 Pet 3:6Eph 6:1Gen 18:11-12Lev 15:19Lev 19:3

Genesis 31:36³⁶Jacob became angry and argued with Laban. “What did I do wrong?” he demanded of Laban. “What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 4:262 Kgs 13:192 Kgs 5:11Gen 30:2Gen 34:7Gen 49:7Jas 1:19-20Mark 3:5Num 16:15Prov 28:1

Genesis 31:37³⁷When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? Set it here before my relatives and yours, and let them settle the dispute between the two of us!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:121 Cor 6:4-51 Sam 12:3-41 Thess 2:10Gen 31:32Heb 13:18Josh 7:23Matt 18:161 Pet 3:16

Genesis 31:38³⁸“I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:4Exod 23:26Ezek 34:2-4Gen 30:27Gen 30:30

Genesis 31:39³⁹Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 22:10-13Exod 22:31Lev 22:8Luke 2:81 Sam 17:34-35John 10:12-13

Genesis 31:40⁴⁰I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:2-4Exod 2:19-22Exod 3:1Heb 13:7Hos 12:12John 21:15-17Luke 2:8Ps 78:70-71

Genesis 31:41⁴¹This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—but you changed my wages ten times!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:71 Cor 15:102 Cor 11:26Gen 29:18-30Gen 30:33-40Gen 31:38

Genesis 31:42⁴²If the God of my father—the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears —had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 31:7Isa 8:13Gen 31:29Gen 31:53Exod 3:7Gen 29:32Gen 31:24Ps 124:1-31 Chr 12:17Jude 1:9

Genesis 31:43⁴³Laban replied to Jacob, “These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today or the children to whom they have given birth?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 31:44⁴⁴So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 20:14-17Josh 24:25-27Deut 31:19Deut 31:21Deut 31:26Gen 15:18Gen 21:22-32Gen 26:28-31Gen 31:48Gen 31:52

Genesis 31:45⁴⁵So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial pillar.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 28:18-22

Genesis 31:46⁴⁶Then he said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they brought stones and put them in a pile. They ate there by the pile of stones.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 3:52 Sam 18:17Gen 31:23Gen 31:32Gen 31:37Gen 31:54Josh 4:20-24Josh 4:5-9Josh 7:26

Genesis 31:47⁴⁷Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:1

Genesis 31:48⁴⁸Laban said, “This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement today.” That is why it was called Galeed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 24:27Deut 2:36Deut 3:16Gen 31:23Josh 13:8-9

Genesis 31:49⁴⁹It was also called Mizpah because he said, “May the Lord watch between us when we are out of sight of one another.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 11:29Judg 10:171 Sam 7:5-61 Kgs 15:22Hos 5:1Judg 11:11

Genesis 31:50⁵⁰If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize that God is witness to your actions.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 42:5Jer 29:23Judg 11:10Mic 1:21 Sam 12:51 Thess 2:5Lev 18:18Mal 2:14Mal 3:5Matt 19:5-6

Genesis 31:51⁵¹“Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 31:52⁵²“This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:48Gen 31:44-45

Genesis 31:53⁵³May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:42Gen 16:5Exod 3:6Gen 11:24-29Josh 24:2Deut 6:13Gen 11:31Gen 14:22Gen 17:7Gen 22:20-24

Genesis 31:54⁵⁴Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 18:122 Sam 3:20-21Gen 21:8Gen 26:30Gen 37:25

Genesis 31:55⁵⁵(32:1) Early in the morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 31:28Deut 23:5Gen 18:33Gen 30:25Acts 28:4-5Deut 32:36Gen 24:60Gen 28:1Gen 31:43Gen 33:4