Genesis 29:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then Laban said to Jacob,“Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 30:28 : 28 He added,“Just name your wages– I’ll pay whatever you want.”
  • Gen 31:7 : 7 but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.

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  • Gen 30:25-31
    7 verses
    85%

    25The Flocks of Jacob After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

    26Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you. Then I’ll depart, because you know how hard I’ve worked for you.”

    27But Laban said to him,“If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me on account of you.”

    28He added,“Just name your wages– I’ll pay whatever you want.”

    29“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied,“and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

    30Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”

    31So Laban asked,“What should I give you?”“You don’t need to give me a thing,” Jacob replied,“but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:

  • Gen 29:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban how he was related to him.

    14Then Laban said to him,“You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.

  • Gen 29:16
    78%

    16(Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.

  • Gen 29:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said,“I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.”

    19Laban replied,“I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

  • Gen 29:24-27
    4 verses
    77%

    24(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)

    25In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban,“What in the world have you done to me! Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?”

    26“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied,“to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.

    27Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”

  • Gen 31:41-44
    4 verses
    76%

    41This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you– fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

    42If the God of my father– the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears– had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”

    43Laban replied to Jacob,“These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today or the children to whom they have given birth?

    44So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.”

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    76%

    36Jacob became angry and argued with Laban.“What did I do wrong?” he demanded of Laban.“What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit?

    37When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? Set it here before my relatives and yours, and let them settle the dispute between the two of us!

  • Gen 31:30-31
    2 verses
    74%

    30Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

    31“I left secretly because I was afraid!” Jacob replied to Laban.“I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.

  • Gen 31:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26“What have you done?” Laban demanded of Jacob.“You’ve deceived me and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war!

    27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?

  • Gen 30:34
    74%

    34“Agreed!” said Laban,“It will be as you say.”

  • Gen 31:14
    74%

    14Then Rachel and Leah replied to him,“Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • Gen 29:5
    73%

    5So he said to them,“Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?”“We know him,” they said.

  • Gen 31:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Jacob’s Flight from Laban Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining,“Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich at our father’s expense!”

    2When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.

  • Gen 31:12
    72%

    12Then he said,‘Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

  • Gen 31:51
    72%

    51“Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob.