Genesis 30:25

Jacob's Prosperity

²⁴ She named him Joseph (may He add) and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.” ²⁵ Now when Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go back to my own place and to my own country. ²⁶ Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the work which I have done for you.”

Send Me

Jacob

Joseph

Laban

Rachel

Genesis 24:54

Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night [there]. In the morning when they got up, he said, “Now send me back to my master.”

Genesis 24:56

But Eliezer said to them, “Do not delay me, since the Lord has prospered my way. Send me away, so that I may go back to my master.”

Genesis 18:33

As soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham the Lord departed, and Abraham returned to his own place.

Genesis 24:6-7

Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there!

Genesis 26:3

Live temporarily [as a resident] in this land and I will be with you and will bless and favor you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will establish and carry out the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Genesis 27:44-45

Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s anger subsides.

Genesis 28:13

And behold, the Lord stood above and around him and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your [father’s] father and the God of Isaac; I will give to you and to your descendants the land [of promise] on which you are lying.

Genesis 28:15

Behold, I am with you and will keep [careful watch over you and guard] you wherever you may go, and I will bring you back to this [promised] land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

Genesis 31:13

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, and where you made a vow to Me; now stand up, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”

Genesis 31:55

Early in the morning Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters [goodbye] and pronounced a blessing [asking God’s favor] on them. Then Laban left and returned home.

Acts 7:4-5

Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, God sent him to this country in which you now live.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land, as in a strange land, living in tents [as nomads] with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

Hebrews 11:15-16

And if they had been thinking of that country from which they departed [as their true home], they would have had [a continuing] opportunity to return.