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28 Why didn’t you let me kiss my daughters and grandchildren and tell them good-bye? You have acted very foolishly!

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28 You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye.(A) You have done a foolish thing.

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55 [a]Laban got up early the next morning, and he kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then he left and returned home.

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  1. 31:55 Verse 31:55 is numbered 32:1 in Hebrew text.

55 Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters(A) and blessed(B) them. Then he left and returned home.[a](C)

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  1. Genesis 31:55 In Hebrew texts this verse (31:55) is numbered 32:1.

37 They all cried as they embraced and kissed him good-bye.

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37 They all wept as they embraced him and kissed him.(A)

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20 Elisha left the oxen standing there, ran after Elijah, and said to him, “First let me go and kiss my father and mother good-bye, and then I will go with you!”

Elijah replied, “Go on back, but think about what I have done to you.”

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20 Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,”(A) he said, “and then I will come with you.”

“Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I done to you?”

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14 And again they wept together, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye. But Ruth clung tightly to Naomi.

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14 At this they wept(A) aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law(B) goodbye,(C) but Ruth clung to her.(D)

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14 But people who aren’t spiritual[a] can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.

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  1. 2:14 Or who don’t have the Spirit; or who have only physical life.

14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God(A) but considers them foolishness,(B) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

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The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. What a fool you have been! From now on you will be at war.”

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For the eyes(A) of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish(B) thing, and from now on you will be at war.(C)

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13 “How foolish!” Samuel exclaimed. “You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you. Had you kept it, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

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13 “You have done a foolish thing,(A)” Samuel said. “You have not kept(B) the command the Lord your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.(C)

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May the Lord bless you with the security of another marriage.” Then she kissed them good-bye, and they all broke down and wept.

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May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest(A) in the home of another husband.”

Then she kissed(B) them goodbye and they wept aloud(C)

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27 Now the Lord had said to Aaron, “Go out into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So Aaron went and met Moses at the mountain of God, and he embraced him.

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27 The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain(A) of God and kissed(B) him.

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24 But the previous night God had appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and told him, “I’m warning you—leave Jacob alone!”

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24 Then God came to Laban the Aramean(A) in a dream at night and said to him,(B) “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”(C)

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13 I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel,[a] the place where you anointed the pillar of stone and made your vow to me. Now get ready and leave this country and return to the land of your birth.’”

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  1. 31:13 As in Greek version and an Aramaic Targum; Hebrew reads the God of Bethel.

13 I am the God of Bethel,(A) where you anointed a pillar(B) and where you made a vow(C) to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.(D)’”

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Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your father and grandfather and to your relatives there, and I will be with you.”

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Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Go back(A) to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”(B)

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