Quotes about Conflict
until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
— Genesis 27:45
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
— Genesis 30:8
But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
— Genesis 30:15
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
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
— Genesis 31:19
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
Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
— Genesis 31:36
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
Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.
— Genesis 32:11
When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.
— Genesis 32:25
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
— Genesis 34:2
But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
— Genesis 34:13