Genesis 31:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!

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  • Gen 30:26 : 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.”
  • Gen 29:15-20 : 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.” 16 (Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel. 17 Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.) 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.” 20 So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.
  • Gen 29:27-30 : 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.” 28 Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah’s bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 29 (Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.) 30 Jacob slept with Rachel as well. He also loved Rachel more than Leah. Then he worked for Laban for seven more years.
  • Gen 31:41 : 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!
  • Exod 21:7-9 : 7 “If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do. 8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her. 9 If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters. 10 If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 11 If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.
  • Neh 5:8 : 8 I said to them,“To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 31:14
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    14Then Rachel and Leah replied to him,“Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • Gen 31:16
    81%

    16Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

  • Gen 43:20-22
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    74%

    20They said,“My lord, we did indeed come down the first time to buy food.

    21But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money– the full amount– in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it.

    22We have brought additional money with us to buy food. We do not know who put the money in our sacks!”

  • Lam 5:2-4
    3 verses
    74%

    2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

    3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

    4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

  • Gen 44:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7They answered him,“Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

    8Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

  • Gen 31:1
    74%

    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!”

  • Gen 47:18-19
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    73%

    18When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him,“We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.

    19Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate.”

  • Gen 37:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed.

    28So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.

  • Gen 34:31
    72%

    31But Simeon and Levi replied,“Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”

  • Neh 5:5
    72%

    5And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”

  • Gen 42:30
    72%

    30“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying on the land.

  • Gen 42:28
    71%

    28He said to his brothers,“My money was returned! Here it is in my sack!” They were dismayed; they turned trembling to one another and said,“What in the world has God done to us?”

  • Ps 44:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.

    12You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.

  • Gen 31:9
    71%

    9In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

  • Gen 29:15
    71%

    15Then Laban said to Jacob,“Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.”

  • Gen 25:31
    71%

    31But Jacob replied,“First sell me your birthright.”

  • Gen 42:32
    71%

    32We are from a family of twelve brothers; we are the sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father at this time in the land of Canaan.’

  • Gen 43:7
    70%

    7They replied,“The man questioned us thoroughly about ourselves and our family, saying,‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we answered him in this way. How could we possibly know that he would say,‘Bring your brother down’?”

  • Lev 25:47
    70%

    47“‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner’s family,

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    70%

    11Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    70%

    15For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

  • Num 20:15
    70%

    15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

  • Gen 31:30
    70%

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

  • Gen 31:7
    70%

    7but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.

  • Gen 43:18
    70%

    18But the men were afraid when they were brought to Joseph’s house. They said,“We are being brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks last time. He wants to capture us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys!”

  • Esth 7:4
    70%

    4For we have been sold– both I and my people– to destruction and to slaughter and to annihilation! If we had simply been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for such distress would not have been sufficient for troubling the king.”

  • Gen 31:32
    70%

    32Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.”(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

  • Gen 31:37
    70%

    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 42:35-36
    2 verses
    69%

    35When they were emptying their sacks, there was each man’s bag of money in his sack! When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were afraid.

    36Their father Jacob said to them,“You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

  • Gen 31:26
    69%

    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!

  • Gen 42:21
    69%

    21They said to one another,“Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!”