Genesis 31:28

In 11 translations

BSB

But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.

KJV

And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

WEB

and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.

ASV

and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.

LSV

and have not permitted me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have acted foolishly in doing [so];

YLT

and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? — now thou hast acted foolishly in doing [so];

DBY

and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now thou hast acted foolishly.

DRC

Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters: thou hast done foolishly: and now, indeed,

GNV

But thou hast not suffered me to kisse my sonnes and my daughters: nowe thou hast done foolishly in doing so.

JPS

and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.

LXXE

And I was not counted worthy to embrace my children and my daughters; now then thou hast wrought foolishly.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְלֹ֣א נְטַשְׁתַּ֔נִי לְנַשֵּׁ֥ק לְבָנַ֖י וְלִבְנֹתָ֑י עַתָּ֖ה הִסְכַּ֥לְתָּֽ עֲשֽׂוֹ׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ οὐκ ἠξιώθην καταφιλῆσαι τὰ παιδία μου, καὶ τὰς θυγατέρας μου· νῦν δὲ ἀφρόνως ἔπραξας.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Genesis 31:55Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.
• Ruth 1:14Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
• Acts 20:37They all wept openly as they embraced Paul and kissed him.
• 1 Kings 19:20So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”
• 1 Samuel 13:13“You have acted foolishly,” Samuel declared. “You have not kept the command that the LORD your God gave you; if you had, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.
• Genesis 31:24But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
• Exodus 4:27Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
• Ruth 1:9May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud
• Genesis 29:13When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
• 1 Corinthians 2:14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• 2 Chronicles 16:9For the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, therefore, you will be…
• Genesis 31:13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”
• Genesis 31:3Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”

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