30 Bible Verses About Laban

Update on February 21, 2020 by Pastor Jack Wellman

Laban was the son of Bethuel and Milcah and brother to Rebekah. He was Isaac’s cousin, and later he became Isaac’s brother-in-law after Rebekah’s marriage to Isaac. Laban was also the father-in-law and uncle to Jacob through marriage to Leah and Rachel.

Laban welcomed his nephew, Jacob, as a young man, and set the stipulation that he had to work for seven years before he was allowed to marry his daughter Rachel. However, Laban tricked Jacob into marrying his elder daughter Leah instead. This made Jacob very upset as he was in love with Rachel and so Laban also allowed him to marry Rachel as well. The Bible goes on about the life of Laban and how Jacob and his family left him.

Here are 30 Bible verses about Laban:

Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”

- Genesis 29:15

So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.

- Genesis 31:33

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The thing has come from the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good.

- Genesis 24:50

Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

- Genesis 28:2

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran

- Genesis 27:43

And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen pitched tents in the hill country of Gilead.

- Genesis 31:25

Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.”

- Genesis 30:34

These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

- Deuteronomy 1:1

So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast.

- Genesis 29:22

Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.

- Genesis 31:19

Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

- Genesis 29:10

Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne?

- Genesis 31:43

Early in the morning Laban arose and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned home.

- Genesis 31:55

Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

- Genesis 31:31

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.”

- Genesis 29:19

These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob—seven persons in all.

- Genesis 46:25

And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword?

- Genesis 31:26

Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

- Genesis 28:5

And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

- Genesis 29:25

Laban said, “It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

- Genesis 29:26

Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has gained all this wealth.”

- Genesis 31:1

As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.

- Genesis 30:25

As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,

- Genesis 29:13

And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee.

- Genesis 31:20

Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

- Genesis 31:36

But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.

- Genesis 30:27

Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

- Genesis 29:16

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

- Genesis 31:24

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.

- Genesis 29:30

Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

- Genesis 29:28

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