Bible Verses About Father-in-Law

Ya'akov said to Lavan, "Give me my wife, since my time is finished, so that I can start living with her."

Lavan gathered all the men of the place and gave a banquet.

In the evening he took Le'ah his daughter and brought her to Ya'akov, and he went in and slept with her.

If one of your flock was destroyed by a wild animal, I didn't bring the carcass to you but bore the loss myself. You demanded that I compensate you for any animal stolen, whether by day or by night.

Here's how it was for me: during the day thirst consumed me, and at night the cold - my sleep fled from my eyes.

These twenty years I've been in your house - I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock; and you changed my wages ten times!

If the God of my father, the God of Avraham, the one whom Yitz'chak fears, had not been on my side, by now you would certainly have already sent me away with nothing! God has seen how distressed I've been and how hard I've worked, and last night he passed judgment in my favor."

Then her husband went after her to persuade her to return; he had his servant with him and a pair of donkeys. She brought him into her father's house; and when the girl's father saw him, he was glad to meet him.

His father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him there; so he remained with him three days; they ate, drank and stayed there.

On the fourth day they got up early in the morning, and he prepared to leave. But the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "You'll feel better if you have a bite of food before you leave."

So the two of them sat down and ate and drank together. Then the girl's father said to the man, "Please stay one more night, and have a good time."

The man rose to leave, but his father-in-law pressed him, so he stayed there again.

The morning of the fifth day, he got up early to leave; but the girl's father said, "Why don't you have something to eat, and leave this afternoon?" So the two men ate.

When the man got up to leave with his concubine and servant, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Look, it's almost evening. Please stay the night - you see that it's getting late. Stay on, enjoy yourself, and tomorrow get going early on your way home."