Genesis 31:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money;

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  • Gen 30:26 : 26 give 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.'
  • Gen 29:15-20 : 15 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.' 16 And Laban hath two daughters, the name of the elder `is' Leah, and the name of the younger Rachel, 17 and the eyes of Leah `are' tender, and Rachel hath been fair of form and fair of appearance. 18 And Jacob loveth Rachel, and saith, `I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:' 19 and Laban saith, `It is better for me to give her to thee than to give her to another man; dwell with me;' 20 and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.
  • Gen 29:27-30 : 27 fulfil 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.' 28 And Jacob doth so, and fulfilleth the week of this one, and he giveth to him Rachel his daughter, to him for a wife; 29 and Laban giveth to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his maid-servant, for a maid-servant to her. 30 And he goeth in also unto Rachel, and he also loveth Rachel more than Leah; and he serveth with him yet seven other years.
  • Gen 31:41 : 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;
  • Exod 21:7-9 : 7 `And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants; 8 if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her. 9 `And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her. 10 `If another `woman' he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw; 11 and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.
  • Neh 5:8 : 8 and say to them, `We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that `is' in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!' and they are silent, and have not found a word.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Gen 31:16
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    16for all the wealth which God hath taken away from our father, it `is' ours, and our children's; and now, all that God hath said unto thee -- do.'

  • Gen 43:20-22
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    20and say, `O, my lord, we really come down at the commencement to buy food;

    21and it cometh to pass, when we have come in unto the lodging-place, and open our bags, that lo, each one's money `is' in the mouth of his bag, our money in its weight, and we bring it back in our hand;

    22and other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food; we have not known who put our money in our bags.'

  • Lam 5:2-4
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    2Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

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  • Gen 44:7-8
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    7and they say unto him, `Why doth my lord speak according to these words? far be it from thy servants to do according to this word;

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  • Gen 31:1
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    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;'

  • Gen 47:18-19
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    18And that year is finished, and they come in unto him on the second year, and say to him, `We do not hide from my lord, that since the money hath been finished, and possession of the cattle `is' unto my lord, there hath not been left before my lord save our bodies, and our ground;

    19why do we die before thine eyes, both we and our ground? buy us and our ground for bread, and we and our ground are servants to Pharaoh; and give seed, and we live, and die not, and the ground is not desolate.'

  • Gen 37:27-28
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    27Come, and we sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hands are not on him, for he `is' our brother -- our flesh;' and his brethren hearken.

    28And Midianite merchantmen pass by and they draw out and bring up Joseph out of the pit, and sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silverlings, and they bring Joseph into Egypt.

  • Gen 34:31
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    31And they say, `As a harlot doth he make our sister?'

  • Neh 5:5
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    5and now, as the flesh of our brethren `is' our flesh, as their sons `are' our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards `are' to others.'

  • Gen 42:30
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    30`The man, the lord of the land, hath spoken with us sharp things, and maketh us as spies of the land;

  • Gen 42:28
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    28and he saith unto his brethren, `My money hath been put back, and also, lo, in my bag:' and their heart goeth out, and they tremble, one to another saying, `What `is' this God hath done to us!'

  • Ps 44:11-12
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    11Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.

    12Thou sellest Thy people -- without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.

  • Gen 31:9
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    9and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me.

  • Gen 29:15
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    15And 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.'

  • Gen 25:31
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    31and Jacob saith, `Sell to-day thy birthright to me.'

  • Gen 42:32
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    32we `are' twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the young one `is' to-day with our father in the land of Canaan.

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    7and they say, `The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? and we declare to him according to the tenor of these things; do we certainly know that he will say, Bring down your brother?'

  • Lev 25:47
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    47`And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with thee attaineth `riches', and thy brother with him hath become poor, and he hath been sold to a sojourner, a settler with thee, or to the root of the family of a sojourner,

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    11and lo, they are recompensing to us -- to come in to drive us out of Thy possession, that Thou hast caused us to possess.

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    15for sojourners we `are' before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow `are' our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

  • Num 20:15
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    15that our fathers go down to Egypt, and we dwell in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians do evil to us and to our fathers;

  • Gen 31:30
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    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?'

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    7and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.

  • Gen 43:18
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    18and the men are afraid because they have been brought into the house of Joseph, and they say, `For the matter of the money which was put back in our bags at the commencement are we brought in -- to roll himself upon us, and to throw himself on us, and to take us for servants -- our asses also.'

  • Esth 7:4
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    4for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent -- but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.'

  • Gen 31:32
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    32with whomsoever thou findest thy gods -- he doth not live; before our brethren discern for thyself what `is' with me, and take to thyself:' and Jacob hath not known that Rachel hath stolen them.

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    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 42:35-36
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    35And it cometh to pass, they are emptying their sacks, and lo, the bundle of each man's silver `is' in his sack, and they see their bundles of silver, they and their father, and are afraid;

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    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?

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    21And they say one unto another, `Verily we `are' guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'