# Laban — Biblical Genealogy & Biography

> Canonical URL: https://localhost/people/laban-1-21/
> Markdown URL: https://localhost/people/laban-1-21.md
> Role: Generation 22 • Child of Bethuel

## Summary

Laban is a biblical figure in Generation 22, child of Bethuel, parent of Leah, Rachael. (Genesis 24:29)

## Scripture Chapters Mentioning Figure

- [Genesis 24](https://localhost/bible/OT.GEN/24.md)
- [Genesis 25](https://localhost/bible/OT.GEN/25.md): "And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan–aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian."
- [Genesis 27](https://localhost/bible/OT.GEN/27.md): "Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;"
- [Genesis 28](https://localhost/bible/OT.GEN/28.md): "Arise, go to Paddan–aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother."
- [Genesis 29](https://localhost/bible/OT.GEN/29.md): "And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him."
- [Genesis 30](https://localhost/bible/OT.GEN/30.md): "And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country."
- [Genesis 31](https://localhost/bible/OT.GEN/31.md): "And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory."
- [Genesis 32](https://localhost/bible/OT.GEN/32.md): "And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:"
- [Genesis 46](https://localhost/bible/OT.GEN/46.md): "These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls."
- [Deuteronomy 1](https://localhost/bible/OT.DEU/1.md): "These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab."
- [Judith 8](https://localhost/bible/AP.JDT/8.md): "Remember all the things which he did to Abraham, and all the things in which he tried Isaac, and all the things which happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother."

## Connected Knowledge Graph Entities

- [Bethuel (person)](https://localhost/people/bethuel-7-20.md) — child of
- [Leah (person)](https://localhost/people/leah-0-22.md) — parent of
- [Rachael (person)](https://localhost/people/rachael-1-22.md) — parent of
- [Haran (person)](https://localhost/people/haran-0-19.md) — shared chapters (3)
- [Laban (place)](https://localhost/places/laban.md) — shared chapters (8)
- [Rebekah (person)](https://localhost/people/rebekah-0-21.md) — shared chapters (4)