Sentences with phrase «brother laban»
Rebekah sends Jacob to her brother Laban to save Jacob from Esau's wrath, but also to make sure that he marries within the proper line.
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He carries through a systematic twenty - year operation in which Laban, his father - in - law (or brother - in - law — and no mean competitor, he!)
When Laban, Rebekah's brother,
With his treachery against Laban just behind him, and the awful reminder of his shame against father and brother just ahead in the inevitable meeting with Esau, God falls upon him as a nocturnal spirit who, after a struggle that endures throughout the night, again gives — this time simply in a name — both promise and blessing:
when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother [Jacob and Laban have a lot in common!]