Genesis 31:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

Are we not regarded by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and has also utterly consumed our money.

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  • Gen 30:26 : 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."
  • Gen 29:15-20 : 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? 16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. 18 And Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter. 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 29:27-30 : 27 Fulfill her week, and we will give you the other one also for the service which you shall serve with me for seven more years. 28 And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week, and he gave him Rachel his daughter as his wife also. 29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his maid as her maid. 30 And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him another seven years.
  • Gen 31:41 : 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.
  • Exod 21:7-9 : 7 And if a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. 8 If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters. 10 If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights. 11 And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free, without paying money.
  • Neh 5:8 : 8 And I said to them, According to our ability, we have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations; and will you even sell your brethren, or should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found nothing to answer.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 31:14
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    14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 31:16
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    16 For 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.

  • Gen 43:20-22
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    20 And said, O sir, we indeed came down the first time to buy food:

    21 And it came to pass, when we reached the inn, that we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again with us.

    22 And other money we have brought down in our hands to buy food: we do not know who put our money in our sacks.

  • Lam 5:2-4
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    74%

    2 Our inheritance is given to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

    3 We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

    4 We have drunk our own water for money; our wood is sold to us.

  • Gen 44:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 And they said to him, Why does my lord say these words? God forbid that your servants should do such a thing as this:

    8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan: how then should we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?

  • Gen 31:1
    74%

    1 And 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.

  • Gen 47:18-19
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    73%

    18 When that year ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord, that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands:

    19 Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

  • Gen 37:27-28
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    73%

    27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers were content.

    28 Then Midianite merchants passed by; and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

  • Gen 34:31
    72%

    31 And they said, Should he treat our sister as a harlot?

  • Neh 5:5
    72%

    5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

  • Gen 42:30
    72%

    30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

  • Gen 42:28
    71%

    28 And he said to his brothers, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their hearts failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God has done to us?

  • Ps 44:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11 You have given us like sheep appointed for food, and have scattered us among the heathen.

    12 You sell Your people for nothing and do not increase Your wealth by their price.

  • Gen 31:9
    71%

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

  • Gen 29:15
    71%

    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 25:31
    71%

    31 And Jacob said, Sell me your birthright as of this day.

  • Gen 42:32
    71%

    32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 43:7
    70%

    7 And they said, The man asked us specifically about our state and kindred, saying, Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother? And we answered him according to these words: could we know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

  • Lev 25:47
    70%

    47 And if a sojourner or stranger becomes rich by you, and your brother that dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner by you, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    70%

    11 See, how they repay us, to come to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    70%

    15 For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

  • Num 20:15
    70%

    15 how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

  • Gen 31:30
    70%

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

  • Gen 31:7
    70%

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

  • Gen 43:18
    70%

    18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time we are brought in; that he may seek an occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys.

  • Esth 7:4
    70%

    4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to perish. But if we had been sold as slaves, I would have remained silent, although the enemy could not compensate for the king's loss.

  • Gen 31:32
    70%

    32 With whomever you find your gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern what is yours with me, and take it to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

  • Gen 31:37
    70%

    37 Whereas 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 42:35-36
    2 verses
    69%

    35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

    36 And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

  • Gen 31:26
    69%

    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 42:21
    69%

    21 And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he begged us, and we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.