Genesis 29:26

World English Bible (2000)

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

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

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

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

    17Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

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

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

  • Gen 29:27-29
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    27Fulfill 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."

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

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  • Gen 29:24-25
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    24Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

    25It 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?"

  • Gen 30:34
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  • Gen 30:27-28
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    27Laban 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."

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

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    1He 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."

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    25It 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.

  • Gen 31:32-33
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    32Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.

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    42but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

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