Laban — Симфония — New Living Translation

Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, who ran out to meet the man at the spring.

Laban said to him, “Come and stay with us, you who are blessed by the LORD! Why are you standing here outside the town when I have a room all ready for you and a place prepared for the camels?”

Gen 24:32

So the man went home with Laban, and Laban unloaded the camels, gave him straw for their bedding, fed them, and provided water for the man and the camel drivers to wash their feet.

Gen 24:33

Then food was served. But Abraham’s servant said, “I don’t want to eat until I have told you why I have come.” “All right,” Laban said, “tell us.”

Gen 24:50

Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “The LORD has obviously brought you here, so there is nothing we can say.

Gen 25:20

When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Gen 27:43

So listen carefully, my son. Get ready and flee to my brother, Laban, in Haran.

Gen 28:2

Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters.

Gen 28:5

So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.

Gen 29:5

“Do you know a man there named Laban, the grandson of Nahor?” he asked. “Yes, we do,” they replied.

Gen 29:10

And because Rachel was his cousin — the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother — and because the sheep and goats belonged to his uncle Laban, Jacob went over to the well and moved the stone from its mouth and watered his uncle’s flock.

Gen 29:12

He explained to Rachel that he was her cousin on her father’s side — the son of her aunt Rebekah. So Rachel quickly ran and told her father, Laban.

Gen 29:13

As soon as Laban heard that his nephew Jacob had arrived, he ran out to meet him. He embraced and kissed him and brought him home. When Jacob had told him his story,

Gen 29:14

Laban exclaimed, “You really are my own flesh and blood!”After Jacob had stayed with Laban for about a month,

Gen 29:15

Laban said to him, “You shouldn’t work for me without pay just because we are relatives. Tell me how much your wages should be.”

Gen 29:16

Now Laban had two daughters. The older daughter was named Leah, and the younger one was Rachel.

Gen 29:19

“Agreed!” Laban replied. “I’d rather give her to you than to anyone else. Stay and work with me.”

Gen 29:21

Finally, the time came for him to marry her. “I have fulfilled my agreement,” Jacob said to Laban. “Now give me my wife so I can sleep with her.”

Gen 29:22

So Laban invited everyone in the neighborhood and prepared a wedding feast.

Gen 29:23

But that night, when it was dark, Laban took Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her.

Gen 29:24

(Laban had given Leah a servant, Zilpah, to be her maid.)

Gen 29:25

But when Jacob woke up in the morning — it was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob raged at Laban. “I worked seven years for Rachel! Why have you tricked me?”

Gen 29:26

“It’s not our custom here to marry off a younger daughter ahead of the firstborn,” Laban replied.

Gen 29:28

So Jacob agreed to work seven more years. A week after Jacob had married Leah, Laban gave him Rachel, too.

Gen 29:29

(Laban gave Rachel a servant, Bilhah, to be her maid.)

Gen 29:30

So Jacob slept with Rachel, too, and he loved her much more than Leah. He then stayed and worked for Laban the additional seven years.

Gen 30:25

25 Soon after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Please release me so I can go home to my own country.

Gen 30:27

“Please listen to me,” Laban replied. “I have become wealthy, for the LORD has blessed me because of you.

Gen 30:31

“What wages do you want?” Laban asked again. Jacob replied, “Don’t give me anything. Just do this one thing, and I’ll continue to tend and watch over your flocks.

Gen 30:34

“All right,” Laban replied. “It will be as you say.”

Gen 30:35

But that very day Laban went out and removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted or had white patches, and all the black sheep. He placed them in the care of his own sons,

Gen 30:36

who took them a three-days’ journey from where Jacob was. Meanwhile, Jacob stayed and cared for the rest of Laban’s flock.

Gen 30:40

Jacob separated those lambs from Laban’s flock. And at mating time he turned the flock to face Laban’s animals that were streaked or black. This is how he built his own flock instead of increasing Laban’s.

Gen 30:42

But he didn’t do this with the weaker ones, so the weaker lambs belonged to Laban, and the stronger ones were Jacob’s.

Gen 31:1

1 But Jacob soon learned that Laban’s sons were grumbling about him. “Jacob has robbed our father of everything!” they said. “He has gained all his wealth at our father’s expense.”

Gen 31:2

And Jacob began to notice a change in Laban’s attitude toward him.

Gen 31:12

“The angel said, ‘Look up, and you will see that only the streaked, speckled, and spotted males are mating with the females of your flock. For I have seen how Laban has treated you.

Gen 31:19

At the time they left, Laban was some distance away, shearing his sheep. Rachel stole her father’s household idols and took them with her.

Gen 31:20

Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, for they set out secretly and never told Laban they were leaving.

Gen 31:22

22 Three days later, Laban was told that Jacob had fled.

Gen 31:24

But the previous night God had appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and told him, “I’m warning you — leave Jacob alone!”

Gen 31:25

Laban caught up with Jacob as he was camped in the hill country of Gilead, and he set up his camp not far from Jacob’s.

Gen 31:26

“What do you mean by deceiving me like this?” Laban demanded. “How dare you drag my daughters away like prisoners of war?

Gen 31:33

Laban went first into Jacob’s tent to search there, then into Leah’s, and then the tents of the two servant wives — but he found nothing. Finally, he went into Rachel’s tent.

Gen 31:34

But Rachel had taken the household idols and hidden them in her camel saddle, and now she was sitting on them. When Laban had thoroughly searched her tent without finding them,

Gen 31:35

she said to her father, “Please, sir, forgive me if I don’t get up for you. I’m having my monthly period.” So Laban continued his search, but he could not find the household idols.

Gen 31:36

Then Jacob became very angry, and he challenged Laban. “What’s my crime?” he demanded. “What have I done wrong to make you chase after me as though I were a criminal?

Gen 31:43

43 Then Laban replied to Jacob, “These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks — in fact, everything you see is mine. But what can I do now about my daughters and their children?

Gen 31:46

Then he told his family members, “Gather some stones.” So they gathered stones and piled them in a heap. Then Jacob and Laban sat down beside the pile of stones to eat a covenant meal.

Gen 31:47

To commemorate the event, Laban called the place Jegar-sahadutha (which means “witness pile” in Aramaic), and Jacob called it Galeed (which means “witness pile” in Hebrew).

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