Genesis 29:15

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Gen 30:28 : 28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give [it].
  • Gen 31:7 : 7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

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  • Gen 30:25-31
    7 verses
    85%

    25¶ And 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.

    28And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give [it].

    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:

  • Gen 29:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

    14And Laban said to him, Surely thou [art] my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

  • Gen 29:16
    78%

    16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder [was] Leah, and the name of the younger [was] Rachel.

  • Gen 29:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    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 29:24-27
    4 verses
    77%

    24And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid [for] an handmaid.

    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
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

    43¶ And 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
    2 verses
    76%

    36¶ And 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.

  • Gen 31:30-31
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Gen 31:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives [taken] with the sword?

    27Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?

  • Gen 30:34
    74%

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

  • Gen 31:14
    74%

    14And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, [Is there] yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 29:5
    73%

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

  • Gen 31:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1¶ And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that [was] our father's; and of [that] which [was] our father's hath he gotten all this glory.

    2And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it [was] not toward him as before.

  • Gen 31:12
    72%

    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 31:51
    72%

    51And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold [this] pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;