⁵⁰ Laban and Bethuel^(A) answered, “This is from the Lord;^(B) we can say nothing to you one way or the other.^(C)

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)

²⁹ I have the power to harm you;^(A) but last night the God of your father^(B) said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’^(C)

²² And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad;^(A) he hated^(B) Amnon because he had disgraced his sister Tamar.

¹⁷ So if God gave them the same gift^(A) he gave us^(B) who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God’s way?”

⁴² Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

⁵⁵ But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the young woman remain with us ten days or so;^(A) then you^[a] may go.”