Genesis 29:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Laban saith to Jacob, `Is it because thou `art' my brother that thou hast served me for nought? declare to me what `is' thy hire.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 30:28 : 28 He saith also, `Define thy hire to me, and I give.'
  • Gen 31:7 : 7 and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 30:25-31
    7 verses
    85%

    25And it cometh to pass, when Rachel hath borne Joseph, that Jacob saith unto Laban, `Send me away, and I go unto my place, and to my land;

    26give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go; for thou -- thou hast known my service which I have served thee.'

    27And Laban saith unto him, `If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes -- I have observed diligently that Jehovah doth bless me for thy sake.'

    28He saith also, `Define thy hire to me, and I give.'

    29And he saith unto him, `Thou -- thou hast known that which I have served thee `in', and that which thy substance was with me;

    30for `it is' little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house?'

    31And he saith, `What do I give to thee?' And Jacob saith, `Thou dost not give me anything; if thou do for me this thing, I turn back; I have delight; thy flock I watch;

  • Gen 29:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13And it cometh to pass, when Laban heareth the report of Jacob his sister's son, that he runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and kisseth him, and bringeth him in unto his house; and he recounteth to Laban all these things,

    14and Laban saith to him, `Only my bone and my flesh `art' thou;' and he dwelleth with him a month of days.

  • Gen 29:16
    78%

    16And Laban hath two daughters, the name of the elder `is' Leah, and the name of the younger Rachel,

  • Gen 29:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18And Jacob loveth Rachel, and saith, `I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:'

    19and Laban saith, `It is better for me to give her to thee than to give her to another man; dwell with me;'

  • Gen 29:24-27
    4 verses
    77%

    24and Laban giveth to her Zilpah, his maid-servant, to Leah his daughter, a maid-servant.

    25And it cometh to pass in the morning, that lo, it `is' Leah; and he saith unto Laban, `What `is' this thou hast done to me? for Rachel have I not served with thee? and why hast thou deceived me?'

    26And Laban saith, `It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the first-born;

    27fulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.'

  • Gen 31:41-44
    4 verses
    76%

    41`This `is' to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times;

    42unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now empty thou hadst sent me away; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen, and reproveth yesternight.'

    43And Laban answereth and saith unto Jacob, `The daughters `are' my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that thou art seeing `is' mine; and to my daughters -- what do I to these to-day, or to their sons whom they have born?

    44and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'

  • Gen 31:36-37
    2 verses
    76%

    36And it is displeasing to Jacob, and he striveth with Laban; and Jacob answereth and saith to Laban, `What `is' my transgression? what my sin, that thou hast burned after me?

    37for thou hast felt all my vessels: what hast thou found of all the vessels of thy house? set here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and they decide between us both.

  • Gen 31:30-31
    2 verses
    74%

    30`And now, thou hast certainly gone, because thou hast been very desirous for the house of thy father; why hast thou stolen my gods?'

    31And Jacob answereth and saith to Laban, `Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest thou take violently away thy daughters from me;

  • Gen 31:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26And Laban saith to Jacob, `What hast thou done that thou dost deceive my heart, and lead away my daughters as captives of the sword?

    27Why hast thou hidden thyself to flee, and deceivest me, and hast not declared to me, and I send thee away with joy and with songs, with tabret and with harp,

  • Gen 30:34
    74%

    34And Laban saith, `Lo, O that it were according to thy word;'

  • Gen 31:14
    74%

    14And Rachel answereth -- Leah also -- and saith to him, `Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?

  • Gen 29:5
    73%

    5And he saith to them, `Have ye known Laban, son of Nahor?' and they say, `We have known.'

  • Gen 31:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1And he heareth the words of Laban's sons, saying, `Jacob hath taken all that our father hath; yea, from that which our father hath, he hath made all this honour;'

    2and Jacob seeth the face of Laban, and lo, it is not with him as heretofore.

  • Gen 31:12
    72%

    12`And He saith, Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and see -- all the he-goats which are going up on the flock `are' ring-straked, speckled, and grisled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to thee;

  • Gen 31:51
    72%

    51And Laban saith to Jacob, `Lo, this heap, and lo, the standing pillar which I have cast between me and thee;