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Genesis 31:29 KJV
Genesis · chapter 31 · verse 29 · King James Version
It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.Genesis 31:29 · King James Version
Genesis 31:29 in context
27Wherefore 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?
28And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
29It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
30And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
31And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
Key words (Strong's)
- yesternightʼemeshyesterday or last nightH570 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- powerʼêlstrengthH410 →
- spakeʼâmarto sayH559 →
- JacobYaʻăqôbJaakob, the Israelitish patriarchH3290 →
- handyâda handH3027 →
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