Genesis 29:15

World English Bible (2000)

Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 30:28 : 28 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."
  • Gen 31:7 : 7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.

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  • Gen 30:25-31
    7 verses
    85%

    25 It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

    26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."

    27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."

    28 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."

    29 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

    30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

    31 He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

  • Gen 29:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

    14 Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.

  • Gen 29:16
    78%

    16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

  • Gen 29:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

    19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

  • Gen 29:24-27
    4 verses
    77%

    24 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

    25 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

    26 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

    27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

  • Gen 31:41-44
    4 verses
    76%

    41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

    42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."

    43 Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, 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?

    44 Now 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
    76%

    36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

    37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

  • Gen 31:30-31
    2 verses
    74%

    30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

    31 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'

  • Gen 31:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

    27 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

  • Gen 30:34
    74%

    34 Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word."

  • Gen 31:14
    74%

    14 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 29:5
    73%

    5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

  • Gen 31:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."

    2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

  • Gen 31:12
    72%

    12 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

  • Gen 31:51
    72%

    51 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.