Genesis 30:26

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • Gen 29:30 : 30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
  • Gen 29:19-20 : 19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me." 20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
  • Gen 30:29-30 : 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?"
  • Gen 31:6 : 6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
  • Gen 31:26 : 26 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
  • Gen 31:31 : 31 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'
  • Gen 31:38-41 : 38 "These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks. 39 That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. 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.

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  • Gen 30:25
    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.

  • Gen 29:21
    81%

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

  • Gen 30:27-31
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    78%

    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 31:41-43
    3 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?

  • Gen 31:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

    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 29:15
    75%

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

  • Gen 29:19
    74%

    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 31:26-28
    3 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;

    28 and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

  • Gen 31:6
    74%

    6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

  • Gen 24:56
    73%

    56 He said to them, "Don't hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    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 31:3
    72%

    3 Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

  • Gen 32:5
    72%

    5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"

  • Gen 44:33
    72%

    33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

  • Gen 31:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"

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

  • Gen 32:9
    71%

    9 Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'

  • Gen 28:2
    71%

    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.

  • Gen 31:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

    17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

  • Gen 31:50
    71%

    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."

  • Gen 30:34
    71%

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

  • Gen 29:27
    71%

    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 29:25
    71%

    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?"

  • Gen 31:33
    71%

    33 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

  • Gen 31:55
    71%

    55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.