Genesis 30:26

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‘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.’

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  • Gen 29:30 : 30 Jacob was also with Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls—indeed, their altars are like heaps of stone in the furrows of the field.
  • Gen 29:19-20 : 19 Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to another man. Stay here with me.' 20 So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
  • Gen 30:29-30 : 29 Jacob said to him, 'You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.' 30 For 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?
  • Gen 31:6 : 6 You know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.
  • Gen 31:26 : 26 Then Laban said to Jacob, 'What have you done? You deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives taken in war.
  • Gen 31:31 : 31 Jacob answered Laban, 'I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.
  • Gen 31:38-41 : 38 I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten rams from your flocks. 39 I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night. 40 This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime, and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes. 41 It 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.

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  • Gen 30:25
    85%

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

  • Gen 29:21
    81%

    21Then Jacob said to Laban, 'Give me my wife, for my time is completed, and I want to be with her.'

  • Gen 30:27-31
    5 verses
    78%

    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 31:41-43
    3 verses
    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?

  • Gen 31:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

    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 29:15
    75%

    15Laban said to Jacob, 'Because you are my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?'

  • Gen 29:19
    74%

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

  • Gen 31:26-28
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

    28You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing.

  • Gen 31:6
    74%

    6You know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.

  • Gen 24:56
    73%

    56But he said to them, 'Do not delay me. The Lord has given success to my journey. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master.'

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    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 31:3
    72%

    3Then the LORD said to Jacob, 'Return to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you.'

  • Gen 32:5
    72%

    5He instructed them: 'This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: Your servant Jacob says, I have been living as a foreigner with Laban and have stayed until now.'

  • Gen 44:33
    72%

    33Now, therefore, please let your servant remain here as a slave to my lord in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

  • Gen 31:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to the land of your birth.'

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

  • Gen 32:9
    71%

    9He thought, 'If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp that is left will escape.'

  • Gen 28:2
    71%

    2Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

  • Gen 31:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you to do.'

    17Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels.

  • Gen 31:50
    71%

    50If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.'

  • Gen 30:34
    71%

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

  • Gen 29:27
    71%

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

  • Gen 29:25
    71%

    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?'

  • Gen 31:33
    71%

    33So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he left Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent.