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Genesis 31:35-37
Living Bible
Genesis 31:35-37
Living Bible
35 “Forgive my not getting up, Father,” Rachel explained, “but I’m having my monthly period.”[a] So Laban didn’t find them.
36-37 Now Jacob got mad. “What did you find?” he demanded of Laban. “What is my crime? You have come rushing after me as though you were chasing a criminal and have searched through everything. Now put everything I stole out here in front of us, before your men and mine, for all to see and to decide whose it is!
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- Genesis 31:35 but I’m having my monthly period, implied; literally, “The manner of women is upon me.” She was pregnant with Benjamin, but was falsely claiming her menstrual period, which, under the later Mosaic law, caused ceremonial defilement of all that she sat upon. See Leviticus 15.
Genesis 31:35-37
New International Version
Genesis 31:35-37
New International Version
35 Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence;(A) I’m having my period.(B)” So he searched but could not find the household gods.(C)
36 Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. “What is my crime?” he asked Laban. “How have I wronged(D) you that you hunt me down?(E) 37 Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household?(F) Put it here in front of your relatives(G) and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.(H)
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