Quotes About Communication

Then the servant told Isaac all that he had done.

“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,

Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.

until your brotherís rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

He told Rachel that he was Rebekahís son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.

When Laban heard the news about his sisterís 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.

So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,

In that dream the angel of God said to me, ëJacob!í And I replied, ëHere I am.í

But 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.”

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ëBe careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.í

“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.

Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ëYour servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.

I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.í”

He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ëTo whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?í

He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.

“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they returned.