Genesis 31:3
After that God said to Jacob, “Go back to your father's country, to your own people, I will take care of you.” In that way God spoke to him.
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In The King James Version
In Context
2Laban didn't like him. Jacob knew that.
Cross References
Genesis 28:13There in the dream he saw God also, he was standing near the top of the thing for climbing. He said to Jacob, “I am God. I am the one who was looking after Abraham and Isaac, your grandfather and father. Those two also belong to me. This country where you are now sleeping I will give you, for you and your children.
Genesis 28:20After that he said to God, “You told me you will be with me, you will care for me, you will give me belongings and food,
Genesis 32:5Now he has cattle and donkeys and sheep and goats and workers, men and women. He sent you this word. Perhaps you will feel good towards him. Perhaps you will do something good to him.'#” He told his men, “You will talk like that to Esau.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:2-17
Jacob's Departure. ( b. c. 1739.) 1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 3 And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5 And said unto them, I see your father's… Read the whole commentary →