Genesis 24:50
Good News Translation
Laban and Bethuel answered, "Since this matter comes from the LORD, it is not for us to make a decision.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing comes from the LORD; we cannot speak to you anything bad or good.

Contemporary English Version
Laban and Bethuel answered, "The LORD has done this. We have no choice in the matter.

New American Bible
Laban and Bethuel said in reply: “This thing comes from the LORD; we can say nothing to you either for or against it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Laban and Bathuel answered: The word hath proceeded from the Lord: we cannot speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Laban and Bathuel answered: The word hath proceeded from the Lord: we cannot speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.

Laban.

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Genesis 24:15,28,53,55,60 He had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder: . . .

The thing.

Psalm 118:23 This is the Lord's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

Matthew 21:42 Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes.

Mark 12:11 By the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

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Genesis 31:24,29 And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob. . . .

2 Samuel 13:22 But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar.

Acts 11:17 If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God?

Context
Rebekah is Chosen
49Wherefore, if you do according to mercy and truth with my master, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I may go to the right hand, or to the left. 50And Laban and Bathuel answered: The word hath proceeded from the Lord: we cannot speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.51Behold, Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy way, and let her be the wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath spoken.…
Cross References
Mark 12:11
By the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

Genesis 24:51
Behold, Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy way, and let her be the wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath spoken.

Genesis 31:24
And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

Genesis 31:29
It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

Psalm 118:23
This is the Lord's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

Genesis 24:49
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