Genesis 30:30

World English Bible (2000)

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?"

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
  • Deut 11:10 : 10 For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, that you came out from, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
  • 2 Cor 12:14 : 14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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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.

    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."

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Gen 31:41-43
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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?

  • 43The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • 35Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • 9Jacob 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,'

  • 16For 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."

  • 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 31:5-6
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    5and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

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

  • Gen 28:21-22
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    21so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

    22then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."

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  • Gen 31:37-38
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    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.

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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?"

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

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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.

  • 20You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

  • 27He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."

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  • 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."