Genesis 29:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And Laban said vnto Iacob: Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therfore serue me for naught? Tell me what shall thy wages be?

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  • Gen 30:28 : 28 Also he sayde: Appoynt what thy rewarde shalbe, and I wyll geue it thee.
  • Gen 31:7 : 7 But your father hath deceaued me, and chaunged my wages ten tymes: but God suffred hym not to hurt me.

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  • Gen 30:25-31
    7 verses
    85%

    25 Assoone as Rachel had borne Ioseph, Iacob sayde to Laban: Send me away, that I maye go vnto my owne place, and to my countrey.

    26 Geue me my wyues and my chyldren for whom I haue serued thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee.

    27 To whom Laban aunswered: I pray thee, yf I haue founde fauour in thy syght tary: for I haue proued that the Lorde blessed me for thy sake.

    28 Also he sayde: Appoynt what thy rewarde shalbe, and I wyll geue it thee.

    29 But he saide vnto him: Thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee, and in what takyng thy cattell haue ben vnder me:

    30 For that litle which thou haddest before I came, is nowe increased into a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed thee through my trauell: but nowe when shall I make prouision for myne owne house also?

    31 And he sayde: What shall I then geue thee? And Iacob aunswered, Thou shalt geue me nothyng at all: yf thou wylt do this thyng for me, then wyll I turne agayne, feede thy sheepe, and kepe them.

  • Gen 29:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13 And when Laban hearde certaynely tell of Iacob his sisters sonne, he ranne to meete hym, and imbraced hym, and kyssed hym, and brought hym to his house: And he tolde Laban all these thynges.

    14 To whom Laban sayde: Well, thou art my bone & my fleshe. And he abode with hym the space of a moneth.

  • 16 Laban had two daughters, the elder called Lea, and the younger Rachel.

  • Gen 29:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18 And Iacob loued Rachel, and sayde: I wyll serue thee seuen yere for Rachel thy younger daughter.

    19 Laban aunswered: It is better that I geue her vnto thee, then that I shoulde geue her to another man: abide with me.

  • Gen 29:24-27
    4 verses
    77%

    24 And Laban gaue vnto his daughter Lea Zilpha his mayde to be her seruaunt.

    25 And when the mornyng was come, beholde it was Lea. Then sayde he to Laban: Wherefore hast thou played thus with me? dyd not I serue thee for Rachel? wherfore then hast thou begyled me?

    26 Laban aunswered: It is not the maner of this place, to marry ye younger before the first borne.

    27 Passe out this weeke, & then we wyll geue thee this also for the seruice whiche thou shalt serue me yet seuen yeres more.

  • Gen 31:41-44
    4 verses
    76%

    41 Thus haue I ben twentie yere in thy house, and serued thee fourteene yeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yere for thy sheepe, and thou hast chaunged my rewarde ten tymes.

    42 And except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Isahac had ben with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe all emptie: but God behelde my tribulation and the labour of my handes, and rebuked thee yesternyght.

    43 And Laban aunswered and sayd vnto Iacob: these daughters are my daughters, and these chyldren are my chyldren, & these sheepe are my sheepe, and all that thou seest is myne: and what can I do this day vnto these my daughters, or vnto their children which they haue borne?

    44 Nowe therfore come on, and let vs make a league I and thou, which may be a wytnesse betwene me and thee.

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    76%

    36 And Iacob was wroth, and chode with Laban. Iacob also aunswered and sayd to him: what haue I trespassed? or what haue I offended thee, that thou doest sore pursue after me?

    37 Thou hast tossed vp all my stuffe, and what hast thou founde of all thy householde stuffe? put it here before thy brethren and my brethren, that they may iudge betwixt vs both.

  • Gen 31:30-31
    2 verses
    74%

    30 And nowe though thou wouldest nedes be gone away, because thou sore longest after thy fathers house, yet wherfore hast thou stollen my gods?

    31 Iacob aunswered and sayde to Laban: because I was afrayde, & thought that peraduenture thou wouldest take away thy daughters from me.

  • Gen 31:26-27
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    26 And Laban said to Iacob: what hast thou done? for thou hast stollen away my heart, and caryed away my daughters as though they had ben taken captiue with the sworde.

    27 Wherfore wentest thou away secretly vnknowen to me, and dyddest not tell me, that I myght haue let thee go thy way with mirth and songues, with tymbrell and harpe?

  • 34 And Laban sayde: go to, would God it myght be accordyng to thy saying.

  • 14 Then aunswered Rachel, and Lea, and said vnto him: haue we had as yet any portion or inheritaunce in our fathers house?

  • 5 And he sayde vnto them: Knowe ye Laban the sonne of Nachor? They sayde: we knowe hym.

  • Gen 31:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 And he heard the wordes of Labans sonnes saying, Iacob hath take away all that was our fathers, and of our fathers goodes hath he gotten all his glorie.

    2 And Iacob behelde the countenaunce of Laban, and beholde, it was not towardes hym as it was wont to be.

  • 12 And he sayd: lift vp nowe thyne eyes, and see all the Rammes leapyng vpon the sheepe that are ringstraked, spotted, and partie: for I haue seene all that Laban doth vnto thee.

  • 51 And Laban sayde moreouer to Iacob: beholde this heape, and this stone set vp on ende, whiche I haue layde betwixt me and thee,