Genesis 29:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?

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  • Gen 30:28 : 28 He said, "Set your wages, and I will give it."
  • Gen 31:7 : 7 And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to harm me.

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  • Gen 30:25-31
    7 verses
    85%

    25When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away that I may go to my own place and country."

    26"Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you know my service which I have done for you."

    27Laban said to him, "I pray you, if I have found favor in your eyes, stay, for I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."

    28He said, "Set your wages, and I will give it."

    29He said to him, "You know how I have served you and how your cattle have been with me."

    30"For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased to a multitude, and the LORD has blessed you since my coming. Now, when shall I provide for my own house also?"

    31He said, "What shall I give you?" And Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything; if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flock."

  • Gen 29:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

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

    14And Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he stayed with him for 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 you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.

    19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man; stay with me.

  • Gen 29:24-27
    4 verses
    77%

    24And Laban gave his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid as a handmaid.

    25And it came to pass that in the morning, behold, it was Leah; and he said to Laban, What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?

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

    27Fulfill her week, and we will give you the other one also for the service which you shall serve with me for seven more years.

  • Gen 31:41-44
    4 verses
    76%

    41Thus have I been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your cattle: and you have 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 you would have sent me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.

    43And Laban answered and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

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

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    76%

    36And Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me?

    37Whereas you have searched all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? set it here before my brethren and your brethren, that they may judge between us both.

  • Gen 31:30-31
    2 verses
    74%

    30And now, though you would certainly be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, yet why have you stolen my gods?

    31And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Perhaps you would take your daughters from me by force.

  • Gen 31:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done, that you have stolen away secretly from me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?

    27Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with joy, and with songs, with tambourine, and with harp?

  • Gen 30:34
    74%

    34Laban said, "Behold, I would it might be according to your word."

  • Gen 31:14
    74%

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

  • Gen 29:5
    73%

    5And he said to them, Do you know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

  • Gen 31:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's; and from that which was our father's, he has gained all this wealth.

    2And Jacob noticed the expression of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as before.

  • Gen 31:12
    72%

    12And he said, Lift up now your eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are streaked, speckled, and spotted: for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

  • Gen 31:51
    72%

    51And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have set between me and you;