Genesis 30:26

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 cattle 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 have I 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 the loss of it. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41 These twenty years have I 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%

    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 29:21
    81%

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

  • Gen 30:27-31
    5 verses
    78%

    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 cattle 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.

  • Gen 31:41-43
    3 verses
    76%

    41These twenty years have I 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?

  • Gen 31:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

    30Now, you want to be gone, because you sore longed after 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 29:15
    75%

    15Laban 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%

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

  • Gen 31:26-28
    3 verses
    74%

    26Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

    27Why 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;

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

  • Gen 31:6
    74%

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

  • Gen 24:56
    73%

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

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    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 31:3
    72%

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

  • Gen 32:5
    72%

    5I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and maid-servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"

  • Gen 44:33
    72%

    33Now 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%

    13I 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."

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

  • Gen 32:9
    71%

    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.'

  • Gen 28:2
    71%

    2Arise, 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%

    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."

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

  • Gen 31:50
    71%

    50If you will afflict my daughters, and if you will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."

  • Gen 30:34
    71%

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

  • Gen 29:27
    71%

    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 29:25
    71%

    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 31:33
    71%

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

  • Gen 31:55
    71%

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