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Genesis 31:33

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So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

KJV

And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

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This verse in Genesis 31

Commentary

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This site's exposition

Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent

on Genesis 31:33-35

Laban searches four tents in order, and Rachel's comes last. She has put the household idols in her camel's saddlebag and is sitting on them. She stays seated and tells her father she is having her period, and Laban searches the tent and finds nothing.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Ambrose of Milan

On Jacob and the Blessed Life · Written before 397.

proposed

But this pertains to the moral sense, whereas the mystical sense is that Laban, whose name means "lie that has been purified"—and even Satan transfigures himself into an angel of light—came to Jacob and began to demand his possessions from him. Jacob answered him, "Identify whatever of yours I may have," that is, "I have nothing of yours. See if you recognize any of your vices and crimes. I have not carried off with me any of your deceits, and I have no share in your guile; all that is yours I have shunned as a contagion."

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Laban, after all his searches, missed of finding his gods, and was baffled in his enquiry with a sham; but our God will not only by found of those that seek him, but they shall find him their bountiful rewarder. 36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

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And Laban went into Jacob's tent,....

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּבֹ֨אand he went

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • לָבָ֜ןLaban

    lavanH3837 →55 times

  • בְּאֹ֥הֶלin [the] tent of

    beohelH168 →345 times

  • יַעֲקֹ֣ב׀Jacob

    yaakoH3290 →350 times

  • וּבְאֹ֣הֶלand in [the] tent of

    uveohelH168 →345 times

  • לֵאָ֗הLeah

    leahH3812 →34 times

  • וּבְאֹ֛הֶלand in [the] tent of

    uveohelH168 →345 times

  • שְׁתֵּ֥י[the] two

    sheteiH8147 →768 times

  • הָאֲמָהֹ֖תthe maidservants

    haamahotH519 →56 times

  • וְלֹ֣אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • מָצָ֑אhe found [them]

    matza'H4672 →455 times

  • וַיֵּצֵא֙and he came out

    vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • מֵאֹ֣הֶלfrom [the] tent of

    meohelH168 →345 times

  • לֵאָ֔הLeah

    leahH3812 →34 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֖אand he went

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • בְּאֹ֥הֶלin [the] tent of

    beohelH168 →345 times

  • רָחֵֽל׃Rachel

    rachelH7354 →47 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 24:67

    And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.

    it leads to

    • Ephesians 5:22–33

      Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

    • Song of Solomon 8:2

      I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

    • Genesis 37:35

      All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

    • 1 Thessalonians 4:13

      Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.

    • Isaiah 54:1–5

      “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her…

  • Through

    Genesis 24:28

    The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 24:67

      And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.

    • Genesis 24:55

      But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”

    • Genesis 24:48

      Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother…

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
Genesis: the study guide →Read Genesis 31 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ambrose of Milan, On Jacob and the Blessed Life; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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