Genesis 29:19

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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  • Ps 12:2 : 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 ¶ Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
  • Isa 6:11 : 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

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  • Gen 29:24-30
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    24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid [for] an handmaid.

    25 And 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?

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

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

    28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

    29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

    30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

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

  • Gen 29:20-22
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    20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her.

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

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

  • Gen 29:12-16
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    12 And Jacob told Rachel that he [was] her father's brother, and that he [was] Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.

    13 And 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.

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

    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]?

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

  • Gen 30:25-28
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    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.

    26 Give [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.

    27 And 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.

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

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

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

  • 9 ¶ And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

  • Gen 31:43-44
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    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?

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

  • 6 And he said unto them, [Is] he well? And they said, [He is] well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.

  • Gen 31:50-51
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    50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; see, God [is] witness betwixt me and thee.

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

  • 31 And 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:

  • 2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

  • 25 ¶ Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.