Genesis 29:15

Geneva Bible (1560)

For Laban sayde vnto Iaakob, Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therfore serue me for nought? tell me, what shalbe thy wages?

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  • Gen 30:28 : 28 Also he said, Appoynt vnto me thy wages, and I will giue it thee.
  • Gen 31:7 : 7 But your father hath deceiued me, & changed my wages tenne times: but God suffred him not to hurt me.

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  • Gen 30:25-31
    7 verses
    85%

    25And assoone as Rahel had borne Ioseph, Iaakob said to Laban, Sende me away that I may go vnto my place and to my countrey.

    26Giue me my wiues and my children, for whom I haue serued thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee.

    27To whom Laban answered, If I haue nowe found fauour in thy sight tarie: I haue perceiued that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.

    28Also he said, Appoynt vnto me thy wages, and I will giue it thee.

    29But he sayd vnto him, Thou knowest, what seruice I haue done thee, and in what taking thy cattell hath bene vnder me.

    30For the litle, that thou haddest before I came, is increased into a multitude: and the Lorde hath blessed thee by my coming: but nowe when shall I trauell for mine owne house also?

    31Then he saide, What shal I giue thee? And Iaakob answered, Thou shalt giue mee nothing at all: if thou wilt doe this thing for mee, I will returne, feede, and keepe thy sheepe.

  • Gen 29:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13And when Laban heard tell of Iaakob his sisters sonne, he ranne to meete him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house: and he tolde Laban all these things.

    14To whome Laban sayd, Well, thou art my bone and my flesh; he abode with him the space of a moneth.

  • Gen 29:16
    78%

    16Now Laban had two daughters, the elder called Leah, and the yonger called Rahel.

  • Gen 29:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18And Iaakob loued Rahel, and sayde, I will serue thee seuen yeeres for Rahel thy yonger daughter.

    19Then Laban answered, It is better that I giue her thee, then that I should giue her to another man: abide with me.

  • Gen 29:24-27
    4 verses
    77%

    24And Laban gaue his mayde Zilpah to his daughter Leah, to be her seruant.

    25But when the morning was come, behold, it was Leah. Then sayde he to Laban, Wherefore hast thou done thus to mee? did not I serue thee for Rahel? wherfore then hast thou beguiled me?

    26And Laban answered, It is not the maner of this place, to giue the yonger before the elder.

    27Fulfill seuen yeeres for her, and we wil also giue thee this for the seruice, which thou shalt serue me yet seuen yeeres more.

  • Gen 31:41-44
    4 verses
    76%

    41Thus haue I bene twentie yeere in thine house, and serued thee fourteene yeeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yeeres for thy sheepe, and thou hast changed my wages tenne times.

    42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Izhak had bene with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe emptie: but God behelde my tribulation, & the labour of mine hads, & rebuked thee yester night.

    43Then Laban answered, and saide vnto Iaakob, These daughters are my daughters, & these sonnes are my sonnes, and these sheepe are my sheepe, and all that thou seest, is mine, and what can I doe this day vnto these my daughters, or to their sonnes which they haue borne?

    44Nowe therefore come and let vs make a couenant, I and thou, which may be a witnes betweene me and thee.

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    76%

    36The Iaakob was wroth, and chode with Laban: Iaakob also answered and sayd to Laban, What haue I trespassed? what haue I offended, that thou hast pursued after me?

    37Seeing thou hast searched all my stuffe, what hast thou foud of all thine houshold stuffe? put it here before my brethren & thy brethren, that they may iudge betweene vs both.

  • Gen 31:30-31
    2 verses
    74%

    30Nowe though thou wentest thy way, because thou greatly longedst after thy fathers house, yet wherefore hast thou stollen my gods?

    31Then Iaakob answered, and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, & thought that thou wouldest haue taken thy daughters from me.

  • Gen 31:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26Then Laban sayde to Iaakob, What hast thou done? thou hast euen stolen away mine heart and caried away my daughters as though they had bene taken captiues with the sworde.

    27Wherfore diddest thou flie so secretly and steale away from me, and diddest not tel me, that I might haue sent thee foorth with mirth & with songs, with timbrel and with harpe?

  • Gen 30:34
    74%

    34Then Laban sayde, Goe to, woulde God it might be according to thy saying.

  • Gen 31:14
    74%

    14Then answered Rahel and Leah, and sayde vnto him, Haue wee any more porcion and inheritance in our fathers house?

  • Gen 29:5
    73%

    5Then he sayd vnto them, Know ye Laban the sonne of Nahor? Who said, We know him.

  • Gen 31:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Now he heard the words of Labans sonnes, saying, Iaakob hath taken away all that was our fathers, and of our fathers goods hath he gotten all this honour.

    2Also Iaakob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not towards him as in times past:

  • Gen 31:12
    72%

    12And he sayde, Lift vp nowe thine eyes, and see all the hee goates leaping vpon ye shee goates that are partie coloured, spotted with litle and great spots: for I haue seene all that Laban doeth vnto thee.

  • Gen 31:51
    72%

    51Moreouer Laban sayd to Iaakob, Beholde this heape, and behold the pillar, which I haue set betweene me and thee,