Genesis 29:19

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Ps 12:2 : 2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!"
  • Isa 6:11 : 11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,

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  • Gen 29:24-30
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    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."

    28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

    29 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

    30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

  • Gen 29:18
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    18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

  • Gen 29:20-22
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    20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

    21 Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

    22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

  • Gen 29:12-16
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    12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

    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.

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

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

  • Gen 30:25-28
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    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."

  • Gen 30:34
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    34 Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word."

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

  • Gen 29:9
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    9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

  • Gen 31:43-44
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    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 29:6
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    6 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."

  • Gen 31:50-51
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    50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."

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

  • Gen 30:31
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    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.

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    2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

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    25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.