Bible Verses About Laban

and she saith unto her father, `Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise at thy presence, for the way of women is on me;' and he searcheth, and hath not found the teraphim.

And it is displeasing to Jacob, and he striveth with Laban; and Jacob answereth and saith to Laban, `What is my transgression? what my sin, that thou hast burned after me?

for thou hast felt all my vessels: what hast thou found of all the vessels of thy house? set here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and they decide between us both.

`These twenty years I am with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not miscarried, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten;

the torn I have not brought in unto thee--I, I repay it--from my hand thou dost seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night;

I have been thus : in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.

`This is to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times;

unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now empty thou hadst sent me away; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen, and reproveth yesternight.'

And Laban answereth and saith unto Jacob, `The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that thou art seeing is mine; and to my daughters--what do I to these to-day, or to their sons whom they have born?

and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'

And Jacob taketh a stone, and lifteth it up for a standing pillar;

and Jacob saith to his brethren, `Gather stones,' and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap;

and Laban calleth it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob hath called it Galeed.

And Laban saith, `This heap is witness between me and thee to-day;' therefore hath he called its name Galeed;

Mizpah also, for he said, `Jehovah doth watch between me and thee, for we are hidden one from another;

if thou afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters--there is no man with us--see, God is witness between me and thee.'

And Laban saith to Jacob, `Lo, this heap, and lo, the standing pillar which I have cast between me and thee;

this heap is witness, and the standing pillar is witness, that I do not pass over this heap unto thee, and that thou dost not pass over this heap and this standing pillar unto me--for evil;

the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, doth judge between us--the God of their father,' and Jacob sweareth by the Fear of his father Isaac.

And Jacob sacrificeth a sacrifice in the mount, and calleth to his brethren to eat bread, and they eat bread, and lodge in the mount;

and Laban riseth early in the morning, and kisseth his sons and his daughters, and blesseth them; and Laban goeth on, and turneth back to his place.