Verse 26

‘Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, so that I may go. You know how hard I have worked for you.’

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 29:30 : 30 Jacob was also with Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls—indeed, their altars are like heaps of stone in the furrows of the field.
  • Gen 29:19-20 : 19 Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to another man. Stay here with me.' 20 So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
  • Gen 30:29-30 : 29 Jacob said to him, 'You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.' 30 For you had little before I came, but now it has increased greatly. The LORD has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when can I provide for my own household?
  • Gen 31:6 : 6 You know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.
  • Gen 31:26 : 26 Then Laban said to Jacob, 'What have you done? You deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives taken in war.
  • Gen 31:31 : 31 Jacob answered Laban, 'I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.
  • Gen 31:38-41 : 38 I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten rams from your flocks. 39 I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night. 40 This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime, and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes. 41 It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.