Genesis 31:30
Genesis chapter 31 · verse 30 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
KJV
King James Version · 1611And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
Context
v.29It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
v.30This passage
v.31And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 18:24
And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye unto me, What aileth thee?
- Isaiah 37:19
and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
- Exodus 12:12
For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Jehovah.
- Numbers 33:4
while the Egyptians were burying all their first-born, whom Jehovah had smitten among them: upon their gods also Jehovah executed judgments.
- Genesis 31:19
Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
- 2 Samuel 5:21
And they left their images there; and David and his men took them away.