Genesis 29:15

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Laban said to Jacob, 'Because you are my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?'

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  • Gen 30:28 : 28 He continued, 'Name your wages, and I will pay them.'
  • Gen 31:7 : 7 Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not let him harm me.

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  • Gen 30:25-31
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    85%

    25After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, 'Send me on my way so I can go back to my homeland.'

    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.’

    27But Laban said to him, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me because of you.'

    28He continued, 'Name your wages, and I will pay them.'

    29Jacob said to him, 'You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.'

    30For 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?

    31Laban asked, 'What shall I give you?' Jacob replied, 'You shall give me nothing. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to tend and watch over your flock.'

  • Gen 29:13-14
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    13When Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban everything that had happened.

    14Then Laban said to him, 'Surely you are my own flesh and blood.' Jacob stayed with him for a month.

  • Gen 29:16
    78%

    16Now 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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    18Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.'

    19Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to another man. Stay here with me.'

  • Gen 29:24-27
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    24Laban also gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

    25In the morning, Jacob saw it was Leah. So he said to Laban, 'What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve you for Rachel? Why have you deceived me?'

    26Laban replied, 'It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter before the older one.'

    27'Complete this week’s celebration with Leah, and we will give you Rachel also, in return for another seven years of work.'

  • Gen 31:41-44
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    76%

    41It 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.

    42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.

    43Laban answered Jacob, 'The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or about the children they have borne?

    44Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.'

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    76%

    36Then Jacob became angry and confronted Laban. 'What is my crime?' he asked. 'What sin have I committed that you have pursued me?

    37You have searched through all my belongings. What have you found that belongs to your household? Place it here in front of my relatives and yours, and let them judge between us.

  • Gen 31:30-31
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    30Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?

    31Jacob answered Laban, 'I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.

  • Gen 31:26-27
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    26Then Laban said to Jacob, 'What have you done? You deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives taken in war.

    27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? You didn’t even let me know so I could send you away with joy and singing, to the music of tambourines and harps.

  • Gen 30:34
    74%

    34Laban said, 'Very well, let it be as you have said.'

  • Gen 31:14
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    14Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, 'Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • Gen 29:5
    73%

    5He asked them, 'Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?' They answered, 'We know him.'

  • Gen 31:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, 'Jacob has taken all that belonged to our father and has acquired all this wealth from what was our father’s.'

    2Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was no longer the same as it had been before.

  • Gen 31:12
    72%

    12He said, 'Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

  • Gen 31:51
    72%

    51Laban also said to Jacob, 'Here is the heap, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.