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Laban
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Genesis 22:23And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.Genesis 24:15And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.Genesis 24:29And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain.Genesis 24:30And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he was standing by the camels at the fountain.Genesis 24:31And he said, Come in, thou blessed of Jehovah; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.Genesis 24:32And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the camels; and he gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men that were with him.Genesis 24:33And there was set food before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.Genesis 28:5And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.Genesis 29:12And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son: and she ran and told her father.Genesis 29:13And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister’s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.Genesis 29:14And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.Genesis 29:15And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?Genesis 29:16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.Genesis 29:17And Leah’s eyes were tender; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.Genesis 29:18And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.Genesis 29:19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.Genesis 29:20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.Genesis 29:21And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.Genesis 29:22And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.Genesis 29:23And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.Genesis 29:24And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto his daughter Leah for a handmaid.Genesis 29:25And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?Genesis 29:26And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.Genesis 29:27Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.Genesis 29:28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife.Genesis 29:29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid.Genesis 29:30And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.Genesis 30:27And Laban said unto him, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, tarry: for I have divined that Jehovah hath blessed me for thy sake.Genesis 30:28And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.Genesis 30:29And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.Genesis 30:30For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and Jehovah hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?Genesis 30:31And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.Genesis 30:32I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.Genesis 30:33So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when thou shalt come concerning my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that if found with me, shall be counted stolen.Genesis 30:34And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.Genesis 30:35And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons;Genesis 30:36and he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.Genesis 30:37And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.Genesis 30:38And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.Genesis 30:39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.Genesis 30:40And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban’s flock.Genesis 30:41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;Genesis 30:42but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.Genesis 30:43And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses.Genesis 31:1And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.Genesis 31:2And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.Genesis 31:3And Jehovah said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.Genesis 31:4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,Genesis 31:5and said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.Genesis 31:6And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.Genesis 31:7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.Genesis 31:8If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked.Genesis 31:9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.Genesis 31:10And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled.Genesis 31:11And the angel of God said unto me in the dream, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.Genesis 31:12And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.Genesis 31:13I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst a pillar, where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.Genesis 31:14And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?Genesis 31:15Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.Genesis 31:16For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
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