Quotes about Conflict
Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
- Genesis 26:21
“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
- Genesis 26:27
And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
- Genesis 26:35
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
- Genesis 27:30
But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
- Genesis 27:35
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
- Genesis 27:41
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
Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—
- Genesis 27:44
until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
- Genesis 27:45
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
- Genesis 30:8
But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
- Genesis 30:15
Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
- Genesis 31:1