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- Genesis 29:14
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Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
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- Genesis 29:15
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Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
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- Genesis 29:18
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Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
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- Genesis 29:19
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Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
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- Genesis 29:21
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Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
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- Genesis 29:25
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When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
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- Genesis 29:26
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Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
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- Genesis 29:32
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And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”
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- Genesis 29:33
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Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon.
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- Genesis 29:34
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Once again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.
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- Genesis 29:35
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And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
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- Genesis 30:1
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When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
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- Genesis 30:2
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Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”
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- Genesis 30:3
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Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
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- Genesis 30:6
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Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.
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- Genesis 30:8
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Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
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- Genesis 30:11
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Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.
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- Genesis 30:13
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Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
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- Genesis 30:14
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Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
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- Genesis 30:15
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But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
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- Genesis 30:16
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When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
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- Genesis 30:18
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Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
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- Genesis 30:20
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“God has given me a good gift,” she said. “This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” And she named him Zebulun.
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- Genesis 30:23
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and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.
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- Genesis 30:24
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She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
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- Genesis 30:25
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Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
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- Genesis 30:27
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But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
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- Genesis 30:28
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And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
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- Genesis 30:29
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Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.
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- Genesis 30:31
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“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.
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- Genesis 30:34
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“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
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- Genesis 31:1
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Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
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- Genesis 31:3
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Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
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- Genesis 31:5
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and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.
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- Genesis 31:8
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If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.
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- Genesis 31:11
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In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’
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- Genesis 31:12
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‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
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- Genesis 31:14
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And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?
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- Genesis 31:16
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Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
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- Genesis 31:24
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But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
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- Genesis 31:26
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Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
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- Genesis 31:29
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I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
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- Genesis 31:31
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“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
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- Genesis 31:35
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Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched but could not find the household idols.
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- Genesis 31:36
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Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
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- Genesis 31:43
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But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
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- Genesis 31:46
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and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
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- Genesis 31:48
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Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
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- Genesis 31:49
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It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.
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- Genesis 31:51
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Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
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