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Laban לָבָן
Laban, the brother of Rebekah and father of Jacob's wives, Leah and Rachel.
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Where Laban appears
Genesis (46)
Key verses
- Genesis 24:29 first mention — And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
- Genesis 24:50 — Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
- Genesis 25:20 — And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
- Genesis 28:2 — Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
- Genesis 29:14 — And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
- Genesis 30:27 — And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
- Genesis 31:1 — And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.
- Genesis 31:19 — And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
- Genesis 31:24 — And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
- Genesis 31:26 — And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?
- Genesis 31:55 — And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
- Genesis 32:4 — And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.