Genesis 30:28

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

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  • Gen 29:15 : 15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
  • Gen 29:19 : 19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

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  • Gen 30:25-27
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    25And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

    26Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

    27And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.

  • Gen 29:14-15
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    14And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

    15And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?

  • Gen 30:29-34
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    29And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

    30For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

    31And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

    32I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

    33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

    34And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

  • Gen 29:18-19
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    18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

    19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

  • Gen 31:7-9
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    7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

    8If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.

    9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

  • 12And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

  • Gen 29:25-27
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    25And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

    26And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

    27Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

  • Gen 31:41-44
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    41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

    42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

    43And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

    44Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

  • Gen 31:36-37
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    36And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

    37Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

  • 49And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

  • Gen 31:30-31
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    30And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

    31And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.

  • 21And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

  • 8And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

  • 4And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:

  • 18And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

  • 5And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

  • 20And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,