Quotes about Laban
But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.
- Genesis 29:23
And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
- Genesis 29:24
When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
- Genesis 29:25
And Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
- Genesis 29:28
Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
- Genesis 29:29
Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
- Genesis 30:25
But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
- Genesis 30:27
That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.
- Genesis 30:35
Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
- Genesis 30:36
Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
- Genesis 30:40
But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.
- Genesis 30:42
Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
- Genesis 31:1