Genesis 30:28

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 29:15 : 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 : 19 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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  • Gen 30:25-27
    3 verses
    86%

    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.

    26Give 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."

    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."

  • Gen 29:14-15
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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?"

  • Gen 30:29-34
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    29He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

    30For 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?"

    31He 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.

    32I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

    33So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."

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

  • Gen 29:18-19
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    78%

    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 31:7-9
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    76%

    7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.

    8If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.

    9Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.

  • Gen 31:12
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    12He 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 29:25-27
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    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?"

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

    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."

  • Gen 31:41-44
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    41These 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.

    42Unless 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."

    43Laban 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?

    44Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."

  • Gen 31:36-37
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    36Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

    37Now 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 24:49
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    49Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."

  • Gen 31:30-31
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    30Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

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

  • Gen 29:21
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    21Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

  • Gen 33:8
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    8Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

  • Gen 32:4
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    4He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

  • Gen 30:18
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    18Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.

  • Gen 29:5
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    5He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

  • Gen 28:20
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    20Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,