Laban
8 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
7 sections
Brother of Rebekah
- Genesis 22:23 And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
- Genesis 24:15 Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.
- Genesis 24:29 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
Jacob Becomes his Servant
- Genesis 29:15–20 Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.” …
- Genesis 29:27 Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
- Genesis 30:27–43 But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.” …
Outwitted by Jacob
- Genesis 30:37–43 Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches. …
- Genesis 31:1–21 Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.” …
Pursues Jacob, Overtakes Him at Mount Gilead, and Covenants with Him
- Genesis 31:22–55 On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled. …
Receives Jacob, and Gives Him his Daughters in Marriage
- Genesis 29:12–30 He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father. …
Receives the Servant of Abraham
- Genesis 24:29–33 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring. …
Son of Bethuel
- Genesis 28:5 So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Related topics
Wages of JacobRachelCovetousness in Deceiving Jacob when he Served Him Seven Years for RachelBetrothal of JacobCraftiness in Management of Laban's Flocks and HerdsContracts by Erecting a Heap of Stones
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.