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It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

Genesis 31:29 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતીઉત્પત્તિ ૩૧:૨૯
તને નુકસાન કરવાની તાકાત મારા હાથમાં છે પણ તારા પિતાના ઈશ્વરે ગતરાત્રે મારી સાથે વાત કરતા કહ્યું, ‘તું યાકૂબને ખરુંખોટું કહેવા વિષે સાવચેત રહેજે”
हिन्दीउत्पत्ति ३१:२९
तुम लोगों की हानि करने की शक्ति मेरे हाथ में तो है; पर तुम्हारे पिता के परमेश्वर ने मुझसे बीती हुई रात में कहा, ‘सावधान रह, याकूब से न तो भला कहना और न बुरा।’

In context

27Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

28and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.

29It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

30Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

31Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

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