Genesis 31:35

WEB

³⁵She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

KJV

³⁵And she said^[+] to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

BSB

³⁵Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.

FBV

³⁵She said to her father, “Sir, please don't get upset with me for not standing up in your presence, but I have my period.” He looked everywhere but didn't find the idols.

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Extra References

Leviticus 19:32

³²“‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.

Exodus 20:12

¹²“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

1 Peter 3:6

⁶So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are if you do well and are not put in fear by any terror.

Genesis 18:11-12

¹¹Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. ¹²Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

Leviticus 15:19

¹⁹“‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.

Ephesians 6:1

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

1 Kings 2:19

¹⁹Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.

Leviticus 19:3

³“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

1 Peter 2:18

¹⁸Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.