Genesis 29:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother are you to be my servant for nothing? say now, what is your payment to be?

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  • Gen 30:28 : 28 Say then what your payment is to be and I will give it.
  • Gen 31:7 : 7 But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.

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  • Gen 30:25-31
    7 verses
    85%

    25 Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country.

    26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have been your servant, and let me go: for you have knowledge of all the work I have done for you.

    27 And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.

    28 Say then what your payment is to be and I will give it.

    29 Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.

    30 For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

    31 And Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do not give me anything; but I will again take up the care of your flock if you will only do this for me:

  • Gen 29:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13 And Laban, hearing news of Jacob, his sister's son, came running, and took Jacob in his arms, and kissing him, made him come into his house. And Jacob gave him news of everything.

    14 And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.

  • Gen 29:16
    78%

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

  • Gen 29:18-19
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    78%

    18 And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.

    19 And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.

  • Gen 29:24-27
    4 verses
    77%

    24 And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman.

    25 And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me?

    26 And Laban said, In our country we do not let the younger daughter be married before the older.

    27 Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.

  • Gen 31:41-44
    4 verses
    76%

    41 These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

    42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

    43 Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?

    44 Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us.

  • Gen 31:36-37
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    76%

    36 Then Jacob was angry with Laban, and said, What crime or sin have I done that you have come after me with such passion?

    37 Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.

  • Gen 31:30-31
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    74%

    30 And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?

    31 And Jacob, in answer, said to Laban, My fear was that you might take your daughters from me by force.

  • Gen 31:26-27
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    74%

    26 And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?

    27 Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?

  • Gen 30:34
    74%

    34 And Laban said, Let it be as you say.

  • Gen 31:14
    74%

    14 Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 29:5
    73%

    5 And he said to them, Have you any knowledge of Laban, the son of Nahor? And they said, We have.

  • Gen 31:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 Now it came to the ears of Jacob that Laban's sons were saying, Jacob has taken away all our father's property, and in this way he has got all this wealth.

    2 And Jacob saw that Laban's feeling for him was no longer what it had been before.

  • Gen 31:12
    72%

    12 And he said, See how all the he-goats are banded and marked and coloured: for I have seen what Laban has done to you.

  • Gen 31:51
    72%

    51 And Laban said, See these stones and this pillar which I have put between you and me;