Laban

Gender: Male

Years: -1857 - -1706

Dictionary Text: The son of Bethuel, who was the son of Nahor, Abraham’s brother. He lived at Haran in Mesopotamia. His sister Rebekah was Isaac’s wife. Jacob, one of the sons of this marriage, fled to the house of Laban, whose daughters Leah and Rachel he eventually married.

Family Members

• Father: Bethuel
• Siblings:
  • Rebekah
• Children:
  • Leah
  • Rachel

Verses

• Genesis 29:19: And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
• Genesis 31:33: And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
• Genesis 31:2: And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
• Genesis 27:43: Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
• Genesis 29:15: And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
• Genesis 29:24: And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
• 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 29:29: And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
• 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:
• Genesis 31:31: And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
• Genesis 29:22: And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
• Genesis 29:21: And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
• Genesis 46:25: These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
• Genesis 29:10: And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
• Genesis 30:40: And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.
• 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 31:25: Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
• Genesis 29:13: And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister’s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.
• Genesis 29:16: And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
• Genesis 28:5: And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
• Genesis 29:5: And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.
• 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 31:20: And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
• Genesis 29:25: And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
• Genesis 31:43: And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
• Genesis 31:12: And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
• Genesis 31:47: And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
• Genesis 30:25: And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
• Genesis 31:48: And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
• Genesis 31:34: Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
• Genesis 31:36: And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
• Genesis 30:34: And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
• Genesis 30:27: And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
• Genesis 46:18: These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
• Genesis 31:22: And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
• Genesis 24:29: 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 30:36: And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
• Genesis 30:42: But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
• Genesis 25:20: And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
• 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 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 29:26: And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
• Genesis 31:19: And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
• Genesis 31:51: And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
• Genesis 28:2: Arise, go to Padanaram, 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.