OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 26

Genesis 31:26

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

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Genesis 31:23–29

23

He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

24

God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

25

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.

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

27

Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

28

and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.

29

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

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