Genesis 31:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.

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  • Gen 30:26 : 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.
  • Gen 29:15-20 : 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? 16 Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form. 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. 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 29:27-30 : 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. 28 And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for his wife. 29 And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman. 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.
  • Gen 31:41 : 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.
  • Exod 21:7-9 : 7 And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do. 8 If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her. 9 And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter. 10 And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less. 11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.
  • Neh 5:8 : 8 And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 31:14
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    14 Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 31:16
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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.

  • Gen 43:20-22
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    20 And when we came to our night's resting-place, on opening our bags we saw that every man's money was in the mouth of his bag, all our money in full weight: and we have it with us to give it back;

    21 As well as more money, with which to get food: we have no idea who put our money in our bags.

    22 Then the servant said, Peace be with you: have no fear: your God, even the God of your father, has put wealth in your bags for you: I had your money. Then he let Simeon come out to them.

  • Lam 5:2-4
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    74%

    2 Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

    3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

    4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

  • Gen 44:7-8
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    7 And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:

    8 See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's house?

  • Gen 31:1
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    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.

  • Gen 47:18-19
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    18 And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;

    19 Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.

  • Gen 37:27-28
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    27 Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.

    28 And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.

  • Gen 34:31
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    31 But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?

  • Neh 5:5
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    5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

  • Gen 42:30
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    30 The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose.

  • Gen 42:28
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    28 And he said to his brothers, My money has been given back: it is in my bag; then their hearts became full of fear, and turning to one another they said, What is this which God has done to us?

  • Ps 44:11-12
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    71%

    11 You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

    12 You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.

  • Gen 31:9
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    9 So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

  • Gen 29:15
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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 25:31
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    31 And Jacob said, First of all give me your birthright.

  • Gen 42:32
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    32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 43:7
    70%

    7 Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.

  • Lev 25:47
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    47 And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family;

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11 See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

  • Num 20:15
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    15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:

  • Gen 31:30
    70%

    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?

  • Gen 31:7
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    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.

  • Gen 43:18
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    18 So they went up to Joseph's chief servant at the door of the house,

  • Esth 7:4
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    4 For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

  • Gen 31:32
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    32 As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.

  • Gen 31:37
    70%

    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 42:35-36
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    69%

    35 And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear.

    36 And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.

  • Gen 31:26
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    26 And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?

  • Gen 42:21
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    21 And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.