Genesis 30:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 29:15 : 15 And 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 : 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.

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  • Gen 30:25-27
    3 verses
    86%

    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."

  • Gen 29:14-15
    2 verses
    85%

    14And Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he stayed with him for a month.

    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 30:29-34
    6 verses
    84%

    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."

    32"I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there 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 wages."

    33"So my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come, when it comes for my wages before your face. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and brown among the sheep shall be counted stolen with me."

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

  • 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 31:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to harm me.

    8If he said, The speckled shall be your wages; then all the cattle bore speckled: and if he said, The streaked shall be your pay; then all the cattle bore streaked.

    9So God has taken away the cattle of your father and given them to me.

  • Gen 31:12
    75%

    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 29:25-27
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    75%

    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
    74%

    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
    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 24:49
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    49Now if you 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 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 29:21
    72%

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

  • Gen 33:8
    72%

    8And he said, What do you mean by all this company which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

  • Gen 32:4
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    4And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall you speak to my lord Esau; Your servant Jacob says this, I have lived with Laban, and stayed there until now:

  • Gen 30:18
    72%

    18Leah said, "God has given me my wages because I have given my maid to my husband." She named him Issachar.

  • Gen 29:5
    72%

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

  • Gen 28:20
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    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 clothes to wear,