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 why did you not allow me to kiss my grandchildren and my daughters [goodbye]? Now you have done a foolish thing [in behaving like this].

But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and hugged his neck and kissed him, and they wept [for joy].

Then they wept aloud again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law [goodbye], but Ruth clung to her.

Blessed

They blessed Rebekah and said to her,

“May you, our sister,
Become [the mother of] thousands of ten thousands,
And may your descendants possess (conquer)
The [city] gate of those who hate them.”

So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not marry one of the women of Canaan.

Then the Lord put a speech 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 has loved you.

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

General references

Then Moses said goodbye to his father-in-law, and Jethro went back to his own land (Midian).