Genesis 31:55

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

And kissed

Genesis 31:28

Genesis 33:4

Ruth 1:14

Blessed

Proverbs 16:7

General references

Exodus 18:27

Bible References

And kissed

and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.

Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

And they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

Blessed

They blessed Rebekah and said to her,
“May you, our sister,

Become thousands of ten thousands,

And may your descendants possess
The gate of those who hate them.”

So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

Then the Lord

put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus.”

Nevertheless, the Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you.

When a man’s ways are pleasing to the Lord,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

General references

Then Moses

bade his father-in-law farewell, and he went his way into his own land.