Genesis 29:19

American Standard Version (1901)

And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

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  • Ps 12:2 : 2 They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
  • Isa 6:11 : 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

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  • Gen 29:24-30
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    24 And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

    25 And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

    26 And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.

    27 Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

    28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife.

    29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid.

    30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

  • 18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

  • Gen 29:20-22
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    20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

    21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

    22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

  • Gen 29:12-16
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    12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.

    13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

    14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

    15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?

    16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

  • Gen 30:25-28
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    25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

    26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.

    27 And Laban said unto him, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, [tarry] : [for] I have divined that Jehovah hath blessed me for thy sake.

    28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

  • 34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

  • 31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force.

  • 9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them.

  • Gen 31:43-44
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    43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom they have borne?

    44 And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

  • 6 And he said unto them, Is it well with him? And they said, It is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.

  • Gen 31:50-51
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    50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

    51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set betwixt me and thee.

  • 31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.

  • 2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

  • 25 And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and Laban with his brethren encamped in the mountain of Gilead.