Quotes About Betrayal

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her fatherís household idols.

Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.

Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!

Now you have gone off because you long for your fatherís house. But why have you stolen my gods?”

If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

Now Rachel had taken Labanís household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

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.

When Jacobís sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacobís daughter—a thing that should not be done.

But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacobís sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.

Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacobís sons (Dinahís brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechemís house, and went away.

Jacobís other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.

They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.

But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his fatherís concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his fatherís wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.

When Josephís brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.

Some time later, Josephís brothers had gone to pasture their fatherís flocks near Shechem.

“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ëLet us go to Dothan.í” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.