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Laban
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Genesis 22:23And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did 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, 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 well.Genesis 24:30And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and 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 stood by the camels at the well.Genesis 24:31And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; 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 his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that [were] with him.Genesis 24:33And there was set [meat] 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 Padanaram 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 29:17Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.Genesis 29:18And Jacob loved Rachel; and 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 unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid [for] an handmaid.Genesis 29:25And it came to pass, that in the morning, 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 must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.Genesis 29:27Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this 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 also.Genesis 29:29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.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, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned by experience that the LORD 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 was with me.Genesis 30:30For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came], and it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: 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 any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed [and] keep thy flock:Genesis 30:32I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle 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 in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that [is] not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.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 ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, [and] every one that had [some] white in it, and all the brown 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 green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which [was] in the rods.Genesis 30:38And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.Genesis 30:39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.Genesis 30:40And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.Genesis 30:41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.Genesis 30:42But when the cattle 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 much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, 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 before.Genesis 31:3And the LORD 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 before; 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 cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.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 cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle [were] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.Genesis 31:11And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, [saying], Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I.Genesis 31:12And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle [are] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.Genesis 31:13I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.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 counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.Genesis 31:16For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that [is] ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
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