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Laban and Rachel
How Laban and Rachel are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Laban was a parent of Rachel.
Rachel was Laban's younger daughter. Leaving with Jacob, she stole her father's images and sat on them while he searched her tent.
the name of the younger was Rachel
Genesis 29:16, King James Version
Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s
Genesis 31:19, King James Version
Where they cross: Genesis 31:32-35
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Genesis 29:16
16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Genesis 31:19
19And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
Genesis 31:32-35
32With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
33And 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.
34Now 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.
35And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
King James Version