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Genesis 31:27
Genesis 31:27 is verse 27 of Genesis chapter 31, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
King James Version
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
World English Bible
Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
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Genesis 31:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.
26 Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
27 Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
28 But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.
29 I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 31:3Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
Genesis 31:4So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,
Genesis 31:5and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31:20Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
Genesis 31:21So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
Genesis 31:31“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
Judges 6:27So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime.
Proverbs 26:23Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
Proverbs 26:24A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart.
Proverbs 26:25When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart.
Proverbs 26:26Though his hatred is concealed by deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
Genesis 24:59So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.
Genesis 24:60And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
Job 21:12singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
Job 21:13They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Exodus 15:20Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.