Genesis 31:55 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵⁵ Early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them; then he departed and returned home.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and pronounced a blessing [asking God's favor] on them. Then Laban departed and returned to his home.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

Common English Bible

⁵⁵ Laban got up early in the morning, kissed his sons and daughters, blessed them, and left to go back to his own place.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁵ In truth, Laban rose up in the night, and he kissed his sons and daughters, and he blessed them. And he returned to his place.

Genesis 31:55 Cross References

Genesis 31:28

And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? What you have done is foolish.

Genesis 30:25

When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.

Genesis 18:33

And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

Proverbs 16:7

When the ways of people please the Lord, he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.

Psalm 76:10

Human wrath serves only to praise you, when you bind the last bit of your wrath around you.

Ruth 1:14

Then they wept aloud again. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

Deuteronomy 32:36

Indeed, the Lord will vindicate his people, have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, neither bond nor free remaining.

Deuteronomy 23:5

(Yet the Lord your God refused to heed Balaam; the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.)

Numbers 24:25

Then Balaam got up and went back to his place, and Balak also went his way.

Numbers 23:11

Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but now you have done nothing but bless them.”

Numbers 23:8

How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?

Numbers 23:5

The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and this is what you must say.”

Genesis 33:4

But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

Genesis 31:43

Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do today about these daughters of mine or about their children whom they have borne?

Genesis 28:1

Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, “You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women.

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, become thousands of myriads; may your offspring gain possession of the gates of their foes.”

2 Samuel 19:39

Then all the people crossed over the Jordan, and the king crossed over; the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own home.