and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
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and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
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And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
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and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.
Cross-references (13)
Passages linked to Genesis 31:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 31:55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
- Ruth 1:14 They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.
- 1 Kings 19:20 Elisha left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”
- Acts 20:37 They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,
- Genesis 29:13 When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
- Genesis 31:3 Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
- Genesis 31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’ ”
- Genesis 31:24 God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
- Exodus 4:27 Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him.
- Ruth 1:9 May Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept.
- 1 Samuel 13:13 Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
- 2 Chronicles 16:9 For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
- 1 Corinthians 2:14 Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 31:28 And hast not suffered me to kiss…
Gen 31:28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in [so] doing.
Ver. 28. Thou hast now done foolishly.] And yet he had done no more than God bade him do. Wretched men dare reprehend that which they do not comprehend. But if a wise man speak evil of thee, or to thee, endure him; if a fool, pardon him. Shake off reproaches and hard censures, as Paul did the viper; yea, in a holy scorn, laugh at them, as the wild ass doth at the horse and his rider. "Diotrephes prates against us," saith St John. {3Jn 1:10} In the Greek (φλυαξει) it is, "trifles against us with malicious words." Although his words were malicious, and he a great man, yet all was but trifles to a clear conscience.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To kiss my sons and my daughters, as was…
To kiss my sons and my daughters, as was usual at the parting of friends. See Poole on "Gen 29:11". But indeed Jacob took the wisest course for the security of his person and estate, especially having the direction and protection of God in it.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone,.... Or,…
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone,.... Or, "in going wouldest go" (i), was determined upon it, and in haste to do it:
because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, or "desiring didst desire it" (k); had a vehement desire for it, which Laban signifies he should not have opposed, if he had let him know his mind: but be it so that he had ever so great desire to leave him and return to his father's house, says he:
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yet, wherefore, hast thou stolen my gods? what reason had he for that? if he took away himself, his wives, his children, his goods, what business had he with his gods? he could not claim these as his, meaning the images or teraphim before mentioned, Gen 31:19; by which it appears that Laban was some way or other guilty of idolatry in the use of these images; looking upon them as types, or representations of God, as Josephus (l) calls them, and worshipped God in them, or along with them and by them; for he could never think they were truly and really gods, that could not preserve themselves from being stolen away, and that must be a poor god that a man may be robbed of.
(i) "eundo ivisti", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius. (k) "desiderando desiderabis", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Piscator. (l) Antiqu. l. 1. c. 19. sect. 9.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 28. sons … daughters] Laban’s grandchildren; cf. Gen_31:43; Gen_31:55.
28. sons … daughters] Laban’s grandchildren; cf. Gen_31:43; Gen_31:55.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (28) My sons.—That is, my grandsons.
(28) My sons.—That is, my grandsons.
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