Quotes about Family
and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
— Genesis 31:18
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
— Genesis 31:19
On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.
— Genesis 31:22
Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
— Genesis 31:26
But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.
— Genesis 31:28
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
— Genesis 31:30
“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
— Genesis 31:31
If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
— Genesis 31:32
So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
— Genesis 31:33
Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
— Genesis 31:34
But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
— Genesis 31:43
and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
— Genesis 31:46