Genesis 31
Treated in 4 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 31:7 Even so, your father has tricked me and altered my wages time after time. But God would not let him do me any harm. 1
- 31:19 Laban was away shearing his sheep, and Rachel took the household gods that belonged to her father. 1
- 31:39 When a wild animal killed one, I did not bring it to you to show it was not my fault; I made up the loss myself. You made me pay for anything stolen, by day or by night. 1
- 31:40 That is how it was: by day the heat wore me down, by night the cold, and I could not sleep. 1
Open Word Bible
Where it is preached
- Communion with God ·
How the saints hold communion with Christ as to their acceptation with God cites Gen. xxxi. 39
…as above, John xvii. 2, 12, vi. 37, 39; as Jacob did the cattle he received of Laban, Gen. xxxi. 39, 40. Of both these I have treated somewhat at large elsewhere, in handling the covenant…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 1, Chapter 11 — Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God cites Gen. 31:19
…the dead, frequently adverted to by profane writers, is evident from the words of Moses (Gen. 31:19). When he relates that Rachel stole her father’s images, he speaks of the use of idols as…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.5 The Fifth Commandment cites Gen 31: 7
…their wages; nor deal deceitfully with them, as Laban did with Jacob, changing his wages. Gen 31: 7. Falseness in promise is as bad as false weights. (7) Be careful of your servants, not…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 10 — The Resemblance Between the Old Testament and the New cites Gen. 31:40
…of the sun scorches him by day, while in frost and cold he spends the sleepless night (Gen. 31:40, 41). For twenty years he spends this bitter life, and daily suffers new injuries from…