Laban

Laban (Person)

Father

Bethuel

Siblings

Rebekah

Children

Leah· Rachel

• לָבָן·Laban

Includes 37 verses that refer to Laban without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

1. Genesis 24:29
   Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
2. Genesis 24:30Referred to, not named
   As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
3. Genesis 24:31Referred to, not named
   “Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
4. Genesis 24:32Referred to, not named
   So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.
5. Genesis 24:33Referred to, not named
   Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”
6. Genesis 24:50
   Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
7. Genesis 24:52Referred to, not named
   When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.
8. Genesis 25:20
   …and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
9. Genesis 27:43
   So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
10. Genesis 27:44Referred to, not named
    Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—
11. Genesis 28:2
    “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
12. Genesis 28:5
    So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
13. Genesis 29:5
    “Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.
14. Genesis 29:6Referred to, not named
    “Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
15. Genesis 29:10
    As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
16. Genesis 29:13
    When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
17. Genesis 29:14
    Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
18. Genesis 29:15
    Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
19. Genesis 29:16
    Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
20. Genesis 29:18Referred to, not named
    Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
21. Genesis 29:19
    Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
22. Genesis 29:21
    Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
23. Genesis 29:22
    So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.
24. Genesis 29:23Referred to, not named
    But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.
25. Genesis 29:24
    And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
26. Genesis 29:25
    When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
27. Genesis 29:26
    Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
28. Genesis 29:27Referred to, not named
    Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
29. Genesis 29:28Referred to, not named
    And Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
30. Genesis 29:29
    Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
31. Genesis 29:30Referred to, not named
    Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
32. Genesis 30:25
    Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
33. Genesis 30:26Referred to, not named
    Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”
34. Genesis 30:27
    But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
35. Genesis 30:28Referred to, not named
    And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
36. Genesis 30:29Referred to, not named
    Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.
37. Genesis 30:30Referred to, not named
    Indeed, you had very little before my arrival, but now your wealth has increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I set foot. But now, when may I also provide for my own household?”
38. Genesis 30:31Referred to, not named
    “What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.
39. Genesis 30:32Referred to, not named
    Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.
40. Genesis 30:33Referred to, not named
    So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”
41. Genesis 30:34
    “Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
42. Genesis 30:35Referred to, not named
    That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.
43. Genesis 30:36
    Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
44. Genesis 30:40
    Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
45. Genesis 30:42
    But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.
46. Genesis 31:1
    Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
47. Genesis 31:2
    And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
48. Genesis 31:12
    ‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
49. Genesis 31:19
    Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
50. Genesis 31:20
    Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
51. Genesis 31:22
    On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.
52. Genesis 31:23Referred to, not named
    So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
53. Genesis 31:24
    But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
54. Genesis 31:25
    Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.
55. Genesis 31:26
    Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
56. Genesis 31:27Referred to, not named
    Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
57. Genesis 31:28Referred to, not named
    But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.
58. Genesis 31:29Referred to, not named
    I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
59. Genesis 31:30Referred to, not named
    Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
60. Genesis 31:31
    “I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
61. Genesis 31:32Referred to, not named
    If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
62. Genesis 31:33
    So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
63. Genesis 31:34
    Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
64. Genesis 31:36
    Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
65. Genesis 31:37Referred to, not named
    You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.
66. Genesis 31:38Referred to, not named
    I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.
67. Genesis 31:39Referred to, not named
    I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.
68. Genesis 31:41Referred to, not named
    Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
69. Genesis 31:42Referred to, not named
    If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
70. Genesis 31:43
    But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
71. Genesis 31:44Referred to, not named
    Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”
72. Genesis 31:47
    Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
73. Genesis 31:48
    Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
74. Genesis 31:49Referred to, not named
    It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.
75. Genesis 31:50Referred to, not named
    If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”
76. Genesis 31:51
    Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
77. Genesis 31:52Referred to, not named
    This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.
78. Genesis 31:53Referred to, not named
    May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
79. Genesis 31:54Referred to, not named
    Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
80. Genesis 31:55
    Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.
81. Genesis 32:4
    He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.
82. Genesis 46:18
    These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.
83. Genesis 46:25
    These are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.