Genesis 29:26

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Gen 29:14-19
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    14To whome Laban sayd, Well, thou art my bone and my flesh; he abode with him the space of a moneth.

    15For Laban sayde vnto Iaakob, Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therfore serue me for nought? tell me, what shalbe thy wages?

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

    17And Leah was tender eyed, but Rahel was beautifull and faire.

    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 29:27-29
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    27Fulfill seuen yeeres for her, and we wil also giue thee this for the seruice, which thou shalt serue me yet seuen yeeres more.

    28Then Iaakob did so, and fulfilled her seuen yeeres, so he gaue him Rahel his daughter to be his wife.

    29Laban also gaue to Rahel his daughter Bilhah his mayde to be her seruant.

  • Gen 29:24-25
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    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?

  • Gen 30:34
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    34Then Laban sayde, Goe to, woulde God it might be according to thy saying.

  • Gen 31:14
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    14Then answered Rahel and Leah, and sayde vnto him, Haue wee any more porcion and inheritance in our fathers house?

  • Gen 30:27-28
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    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.

  • Gen 29:21-22
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    21Then Iaakob sayde to Laban, Giue me my wife, that I may goe in to her: for my terme is ended.

    22Wherefore Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

  • Gen 31:1-2
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    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 30:25
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    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.

  • Gen 31:32-33
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    32But with whome thou findest thy gods, let him not liue. Search thou before our brethre what I haue of thine, & take it to thee, (but Iaakob wist not that Rahel had stolen them)

    33Then came Laban into Iaakobs tent, and into Leahs tent, and into the two maides tentes, but founde them not. So hee went out of Leahs tent, and entred into Rahels tent.

  • Gen 31:26
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    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.

  • Gen 31:43
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    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?

  • Gen 30:42
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    42But when the sheepe were feeble, hee put them not in: and so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iaakobs.

  • Deut 21:16
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    16Then when the time commeth, that hee appointeth his sonnes to be heires of that which he hath, he may not make the sonne of the beloued first borne before the sonne of the hated, which is the first borne:

  • Gen 28:1
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    1Then Izhak called Iaakob and blessed him, and charged him, and sayde vnto him, Take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

  • Rom 9:12
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    12It was said vnto her, The elder shal serue the yonger.

  • Gen 34:31
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    31And they answered, Shoulde hee abuse our sister as a whore?

  • Gen 31:35
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    35Then said she to her father, My Lord, be not angrie that I cannot rise vp before thee: for the custome of women is vpo me: so he searched, but found not the idoles.