Genesis 30:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

"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."

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  • Gen 29:30 : 30 And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him another seven years.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
  • Gen 29:19-20 : 19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man; stay with me. 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days, because of the love he had for her.
  • Gen 30:29-30 : 29 He 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?"
  • Gen 31:6 : 6 And you know that with all my strength I have served your father.
  • Gen 31:26 : 26 And 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?
  • Gen 31:31 : 31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Perhaps you would take your daughters from me by force.
  • Gen 31:38-41 : 38 These twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your she goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it; from my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or by night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes. 41 Thus 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 30:25
    85%

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

  • Gen 29:21
    81%

    21And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her.

  • Gen 30:27-31
    5 verses
    78%

    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 31:41-43
    3 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?

  • Gen 31:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

    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 29:15
    75%

    15And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?

  • Gen 29:19
    74%

    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 31:26-28
    3 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?

    28And have not allowed me to kiss my sons and my daughters? You have now done foolishly in so doing.

  • Gen 31:6
    74%

    6And you know that with all my strength I have served your father.

  • Gen 24:56
    73%

    56And he said to them, "Do not hinder me, since the LORD has prospered my way; send me away so that I may go to my master."

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    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 31:3
    72%

    3And the LORD said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers, and to your kindred; and I will be with you.

  • Gen 32:5
    72%

    5And I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.

  • Gen 44:33
    72%

    33Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant stay instead of the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.

  • Gen 31:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, and where you vowed a vow unto me: now arise, get out of this land, and return unto the land of your kindred.

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

  • Gen 32:9
    71%

    9And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will deal well with you:

  • Gen 28:2
    71%

    2Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

  • Gen 31:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16For all the riches which God has taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatever God has said to you, do.

    17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

  • Gen 31:50
    71%

    50If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and you.

  • Gen 30:34
    71%

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

  • Gen 29:27
    71%

    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 29:25
    71%

    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?

  • Gen 31:33
    71%

    33And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

  • Gen 31:55
    71%

    55And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned to his place.