Genesis 31:55

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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 hast not suffered me to kiss my children and my daughters? Thou wast a fool to do it,

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

Therewith they cried and wept again. Howbeit, Orpah kissed her mother-in-law but Ruth abode still by her.

And they blessed Rebekah and said unto her, "Thou art our sister, grow into thousand thousands, and thy seed possess the gates of their enemies."

Then Isaac called Jacob his son and blessed him, and charged him and said unto him, "See thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan,

And the LORD put a saying in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Go again to Balak and say on this wise."

Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam, but turned the curse to a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh his very enemies to be his friends.

And then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went in to his own land.