Genesis 30:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

Send me away

Genesis 24:54

Mine

Genesis 18:33

Genesis 31:55

And to

Hebrews 11:9

General references

Genesis 44:27

Bible References

Send me away

Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night [there]. In the morning when they got up, he said, “Now send me back to my master.”

Mine

As soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham the Lord departed, and Abraham returned to his own place.

Early in the morning Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters [goodbye] and pronounced a blessing [asking God’s favor] on them. Then Laban left and returned home.

And to

Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there!

Live temporarily [as a resident] in this land and I will be with you and will bless and favor you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will establish and carry out the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s anger subsides.

And behold, the Lord stood above and around him and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your [father’s] father and the God of Isaac; I will give to you and to your descendants the land [of promise] on which you are lying.

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, and where you made a vow to Me; now stand up, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”

Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, God sent him to this country in which you now live.

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land, as in a strange land, living in tents [as nomads] with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

General references

Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife [Rachel] bore me [only] two sons.