Genesis 31:24 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁴ But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said to him, “Take heed that you say not a word to Jacob, either good or bad.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ But God came to Laban the Syrian [Aramean] in a dream by night and said to him, Be careful that you do not speak from good to bad to Jacob [peaceably, then violently].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said unto him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Common English Bible

²⁴ That night, God appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, “Be careful and don’t say anything hastily to Jacob one way or the other.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ And he saw in a dream, God saying to him, "Beware that you not speak anything harsh against Jacob."

Genesis 31:24 Cross References

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.”

Genesis 20:6

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me; therefore I did not let you touch her.

Genesis 24:50

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing comes from the Lord; we cannot speak to you bad or good.

Genesis 28:5

Thus Isaac sent Jacob away; and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

Genesis 31:10

In the mating season of the flock I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream that the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.

Genesis 31:11

Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am!’

Genesis 31:23

he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:25

And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen encamped in the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:29

It is in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Take heed that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.’

Genesis 31:42

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

Genesis 31:7

yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not permit him to harm me.

Genesis 40:5

And one night they both dreamed—the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own meaning.

Genesis 41:1

After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,

2 Samuel 13:22

But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

1 Kings 3:5

At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.”

Job 33:25

let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;

Isaiah 37:29

Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.’

Hosea 12:12

(Jacob fled to the land of Aram, there Israel did service for a wife, and for a wife he herded sheep.)

Numbers 12:6

And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream.

Numbers 22:20

And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only what I bid you, that shall you do.”

Numbers 22:26

Then the angel of the Lord went ahead, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.

Numbers 24:13

‘If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will; what the Lord speaks, that will I speak’?

Matthew 1:20

But as he considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit;

Matthew 2:12

And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.

Matthew 27:19

Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much over him today in a dream.”

Deuteronomy 26:5

“And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.