Genesis 30:28
He added,“Just name your wages– I’ll pay whatever you want.”
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- Gen 30:25-273 verses86%
25 The 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.
26 Let 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.”
27 But 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.”
- Gen 29:14-152 verses85%
14 Then Laban said to him,“You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.
15 Then Laban said to Jacob,“Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.”
- Gen 30:29-346 verses84%
29 “You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied,“and how well your livestock have fared under my care.
30 Indeed, 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?”
31 So 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:
32 Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.
33 My integrity will testify for me later on. When you come to verify that I’ve taken only the wages we agreed on, if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.”
34 “Agreed!” said Laban,“It will be as you say.”
- Gen 29:18-192 verses78%
18 Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said,“I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.”
19 Laban replied,“I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”
- Gen 31:7-93 verses76%
7 but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.
8 If he said,‘The speckled animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said,‘The streaked animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring.
9 In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
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12 Then 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 29:25-273 verses75%
25 In 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.
27 Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”
- Gen 31:41-444 verses74%
41 This 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!
42 If 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.”
43 Laban 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?
44 So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.”
- Gen 31:36-372 verses73%
36 Jacob 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?
37 When 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!
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49 Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way.”
- Gen 31:30-312 verses73%
30 Now 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.
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21 Finally Jacob said to Laban,“Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. And I want to sleep with her.”
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8 Esau then asked,“What did you intend by sending all these herds to meet me?” Jacob replied,“To find favor in your sight, my lord.”
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4 He commanded them,“This is what you must say to my lord Esau:‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.
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18 Then Leah said,“God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.” So she named him Issachar.
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5 So he said to them,“Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?”“We know him,” they said.
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20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying,“If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear,