Genesis 30:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Gen 29:30 : 30 Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.
  • Gen 29:19-20 : 19 And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me. 20 And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.
  • Gen 30:29-30 : 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?
  • Gen 31:6 : 6 And you have seen how I have done all in my power for your father,
  • Gen 31:26 : 26 And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?
  • Gen 31:31 : 31 And Jacob, in answer, said to Laban, My fear was that you might take your daughters from me by force.
  • Gen 31:38-41 : 38 These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food. 39 Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night. 40 This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes. 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.

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

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    21 Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are ended.

  • Gen 30:27-31
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    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 31:41-43
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    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?

  • Gen 31:30-31
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    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.

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    15 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?

  • Gen 29:19
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    19 And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.

  • Gen 31:26-28
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    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?

    28 You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.

  • Gen 31:6
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    6 And you have seen how I have done all in my power for your father,

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    56 And he said, Do not keep me; the Lord has given a good outcome to my journey; let me now go back to my master.

  • Gen 31:36-37
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    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.

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    3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

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    5 And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.

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    33 So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

  • Gen 31:13-14
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    13 I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.

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

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    9 Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:

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    2 But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

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    16 For the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and our children's; so now, whatever God has said to you, do.

    17 Then Jacob put his wives and his sons on camels;

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    50 If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness between us.

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

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    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.

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    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?

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    33 So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.

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    55 And early in the morning Laban, after kissing and blessing his daughters, went on his way back to his country.