Verse 15

Are we not regarded by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and has also utterly consumed our money.

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  • Gen 30:26 : 26 "Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you know my service which I have done for you."
  • Gen 29:15-20 : 15 And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be? 16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. 18 And Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter. 19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man; stay with me. 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days, because of the love he had for her.
  • Gen 29:27-30 : 27 Fulfill her week, and we will give you the other one also for the service which you shall serve with me for seven more years. 28 And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week, and he gave him Rachel his daughter as his wife also. 29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his maid as her maid. 30 And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him another seven years.
  • Gen 31:41 : 41 Thus have I been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your cattle: and you have changed my wages ten times.
  • Exod 21:7-9 : 7 And if a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. 8 If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters. 10 If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights. 11 And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free, without paying money.
  • Neh 5:8 : 8 And I said to them, According to our ability, we have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations; and will you even sell your brethren, or should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found nothing to answer.