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Non-Exact Match

Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As OccupationsSeparating AnimalsBlack AnimalsNot Mixing

He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."

Verse ConceptsEnvy, Example OfGetting RichTaking Possessions

but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of AnimalsWeak Animals

He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

Verse ConceptsFeedingWeights And Measures, DistancesDeparturesThree DaysThose Who Kept Stock

Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

Verse ConceptsWorseChange

It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

Verse ConceptsRollingPossessing Sheep

It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingArmsKissingIndividuals RunningNamed Sisters

Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Running

Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

Verse ConceptsNomadsCamp, Of IsraelOvertaking

Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

Verse ConceptsHuntingAnger, Justified ExamplesAnger Of Man, RighteousDisputesNamed People Angry With OthersWhat Sin?

Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingGrandchildrenMorningThose Who Rose EarlyIndividuals going homePeople Who Blessed OthersgoodbyesExamples Of Love For Children

Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

Verse ConceptsTentsNot Finding

Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character Of

Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

Verse ConceptsMarrying RelativesTaking A WifeFathers And Daughters

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsHousehold GodsSheepStealingSuffering, Causes OfSheep ShearingRobbing Gods

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them.

Verse ConceptsHousehold GodsPeople Sitting DownSeeking For Concrete ThingsNot Findinghidingstatues

These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

Verse ConceptsBeyond Jordan

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can't speak to you bad or good.

Verse ConceptsGod In Relation To ManUnable To Harm

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

Verse ConceptsForty YearsNamed Sisters

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

Verse ConceptsGrandchildrenKnowing PeopleImmigrants

Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.

Verse ConceptsBonesBodyOne MonthSame Bone And Fleshspace

Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

Verse ConceptsBeing FairNegotiationServants, Working Conditions OfWagesFree Of Charge

Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Verse ConceptsTwo WomenFather And Daughter Relationships

Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

Verse ConceptsGood ActivityStaying TemporarilyGiving In Marriage

It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

Verse ConceptsMorningWhat Do You Do?Those Who Deceived

Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersCustom

Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

Verse ConceptsMaids

It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

Verse ConceptsReturning to their landPeople Sending People

Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."

Verse ConceptsLearningBlessing Through God's People

Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word."

Verse ConceptsAgreeing For Good

He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing Their AfflictionBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteGod Sending His Son

Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him that he was running away.

Verse ConceptsOthers Who FledThose Who DeceivedThose Who Did Not Tell

God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."

Verse ConceptsDreamsDreams, Examples OfNightSpeech, DivineWarning IndividualsDirect Communication Through Dreams

Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Those Who Deceived

Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'

Verse ConceptsTaking Other PeopleFear Of Individuals

Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

Verse ConceptsPeople Possessing Other Things

Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed

Verse ConceptsThings As Witnesses

Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

Verse ConceptsObelisksCairns

He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietySojourning

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

Verse ConceptsSixteen

These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.

Verse ConceptsSeven People

If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me."

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToTownComing To GatesPeople UnwillingBrothers in lawMarriage Between Man And Woman

Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may not be reversed by any man."

Verse ConceptsSealing The Message

Select the best and fittest of your master's sons, set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."

Verse ConceptsThroneChoosing PeopleFighting One Another

"Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofAgriculture, RestrictionsdesiresGreed, Believers' Response ToLaw, Ten CommandmentsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinLiving In HousesServants Of PeopleMarriage Controlled

He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.

Verse ConceptsBeamsCraftsmenSpearsWeights And Measures, LinearGiants

It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

Verse ConceptsOfficersScribesSecretary

Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king's commandment?"

Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people's. They don't keep the king's laws. Therefore it is not for the king's profit to allow them to remain.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Examples OfDifferent TeachingsBreaking Man's LawThe Law Given To Israel

Then the king's scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king's ring.

Verse ConceptsProvincesSealing The MessageAlphabet

Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, "You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman."

Verse ConceptsHalf brothers

Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand."

Verse ConceptsPressingProviding Wine

Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, "You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi.

He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in his sack's mouth.

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of Money

When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

Verse ConceptsHands On HeadsBlessings For The Right HandTroubling Individuals

"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofCovenant breakersdesiresGreed, Believers' Response ToLaw, Ten CommandmentsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinProperty, HousesLiving In HousesServants Of PeopleMarriage ControlledEighth Commandment

"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

Verse ConceptsEyes HarmedFor The Sake Of ThingsPeople Freeing Slaves

If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

Verse ConceptsDentistryBreaking TeethFor The Sake Of ThingsPeople Freeing Slaves

"'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceIncurring GuiltSexual Sin, Nature OfSistersForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness UncoveredDeath Penalty For Sexual SinMothers And Daughters

But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessDivorceFathers And Daughters

It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

Verse ConceptsMan's Work FinishedThe First Temple

However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen."

Verse ConceptsFor The Sake Of God's People

The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsWeaningAdoption

(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David's sake and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidJerusalem, Significance OfFor The Sake Of God's People

It happened, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,

Verse ConceptsCitadelsHope, Results Of Its AbsencePalacesSuicideBurning People

There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfCoinagedung and manureHeadsMonotonySuffering, Nature OfWeights And Measures, DryDefecationHelp In ShortageA Fourth PartExpensiveOther Volume Measuresboyfriendspoop

Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, "If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time." Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.

Verse ConceptsSeventies

He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPolygamyKings Exiled

The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [Jehoiachin's] father's brother, king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Verse ConceptsPeople Renaming PeopleKings Of All Israel Or Judah

The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; and he killed him.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornFirstborn SonsGod Killing