Quotes about Deception
When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.
— Genesis 27:42
But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.
— Genesis 29:23
When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
— Genesis 29:25
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.
— Genesis 31:15
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
— Genesis 31:19
Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
— Genesis 31:20
Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
— Genesis 31:26
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.
— Genesis 31:27
“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
— Genesis 31:31
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.
— Genesis 31:32
So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
— Genesis 31:33
Now Rachel had taken Laban’s 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.
— Genesis 31:34