Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”
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Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”
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Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
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Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go; for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.'
Cross-references (8)
Passages linked to Genesis 30:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 29:30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.
- Hosea 12:12 Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
- Genesis 29:19-20 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.” Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
- Genesis 31:6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
- Genesis 31:26 Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
- Genesis 31:31 Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
- Genesis 31:38-41 “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks. That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
- Genesis 30:29-30 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me. For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 30:26 Give [me] my wives and my children,…
Gen 30:26 Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
Ver. 26. Let me go.] Here Jacob was too hasty; as Moses was, in doing justice before his time, and therefore fled for it. {Exo 2:11-14}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For it was little which thou hadst before I…
For it was little which thou hadst before I came,.... Perhaps but a single flock, and that not a very large one, since Rachel, his youngest daughter, had the care of it:
and it is now increased unto a multitude; or "broke forth" (m), spread itself over the fields and plains, hills and mountains adjacent, so that they were covered with his sheep, these bringing forth thousands and ten thousands, Psa 144:13,
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and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming; or "at my foot" (n); ever since he set foot in his house. Aben Ezra observes it as a proverbial saying, such an one has a good foot, a lucky one, wherever he comes a blessing or success goes with him; or the meaning may be, wherever Jacob went or led his flock, and fed it, it prospered, the blessing of God going with him. Onkelos renders it, "for my sake"; and so it is the same with what Laban had observed and owned, Gen 30:27,
and now, when shall I provide for mine own house? suggesting it was his duty to do it, and it was high time he did it, since he had a large family to provide for; see Ti1 5:8.
(m) "erupit", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius. (n) "ad pedem meum", Montanus, Piscator, Drusius, Schmidt.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 26. Thou knowest my service — Jacob is not…
26. Thou knowest my service — Jacob is not afraid to reckon on the value of his labours, and Laban had, doubtless, profited greatly by them —as he at once acknowledged. Gen_30:27.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 26. my wives and my children] Jacob’s request implies…
26. my wives and my children] Jacob’s request implies that Laban as the head of the family possessed control over his married daughters and their children, who were included in Jacob’s wages.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Give me (suffer me to take) my wives and…
Give me (suffer me to take) my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go (literally, and I will go): for thou knowest my service which I have done thee implying that he had faithfully implemented his engagement, and that Laban was aware of the justness of his demand to be released from further servitude.
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