Genesis 30:29

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Jacob said to him, 'You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.'

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  • Gen 31:6 : 6 You know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.
  • Gen 31:38-40 : 38 I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten rams from your flocks. 39 I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night. 40 This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime, and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
  • Matt 24:45 : 45 Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?
  • Eph 6:5-8 : 5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with sincerity of heart, as you would Christ. 6 Do not work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. 7 Serve with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not to people, 8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.
  • Col 3:22-25 : 22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord and not for people. 24 Knowing that you will receive the reward of your inheritance from the Lord, serve the Lord Christ. 25 But the one who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no favoritism.
  • Titus 2:9-9 : 9 Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, aiming to be well-pleasing and not argumentative. 10 They must not pilfer but must demonstrate complete faithfulness, so that they may make the teaching of God our Savior attractive in every way.
  • 1 Pet 2:15 : 15 For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish people.
  • 1 Pet 2:18 : 18 Servants, submit yourselves with all respect to your masters, not only to those who are good and gentle but also to those who are harsh.
  • Gen 30:5 : 5 Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

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  • Gen 30:30-31
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    30For you had little before I came, but now it has increased greatly. The LORD has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when can I provide for my own household?

    31Laban asked, 'What shall I give you?' Jacob replied, 'You shall give me nothing. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to tend and watch over your flock.'

  • Gen 30:26-28
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    26‘Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, so that I may go. You know how hard I have worked for you.’

    27But Laban said to him, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me because of you.'

    28He continued, 'Name your wages, and I will pay them.'

  • Gen 31:5-9
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    5He said to them, 'I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not as it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.'

    6You know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.

    7Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not let him harm me.

    8If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then the flock bore speckled young. And if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then the flock bore streaked young.

    9So God has taken away your father’s livestock and given it to me.

  • Gen 29:14-15
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    14Then Laban said to him, 'Surely you are my own flesh and blood.' Jacob stayed with him for a month.

    15Laban said to Jacob, 'Because you are my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?'

  • Gen 31:41-43
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    41It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

    42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.

    43Laban answered Jacob, 'The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or about the children they have borne?

  • Gen 31:37-38
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    37You have searched through all my belongings. What have you found that belongs to your household? Place it here in front of my relatives and yours, and let them judge between us.

    38I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten rams from your flocks.

  • Gen 33:8
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    8'What do you mean by all these camps I met?' Esau inquired. Jacob replied, 'To find favor in the eyes of my lord.'

  • Gen 32:4-5
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    4Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

    5He instructed them: 'This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: Your servant Jacob says, I have been living as a foreigner with Laban and have stayed until now.'

  • Gen 33:13
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    13But Jacob replied, 'My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds that are nursing are my responsibility. If they are driven hard even for one day, all the flocks will die.'

  • Gen 24:34-35
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    34So he said, "I am Abraham’s servant.

    35The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • Gen 31:12
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    12He said, 'Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

  • Gen 27:37
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    37Isaac answered Esau, 'Behold, I have made him lord over you and have given him all his brothers as servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?'

  • Gen 44:32-33
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    32For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'

    33Now, therefore, please let your servant remain here as a slave to my lord in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

  • Gen 29:5-6
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    5He asked them, 'Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?' They answered, 'We know him.'

    6Then he asked, 'Is he well?' They said, 'He is well, and look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.'

  • Gen 32:9
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    9He thought, 'If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp that is left will escape.'

  • Gen 24:27
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    27He said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his steadfast love and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives."

  • Gen 32:20
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    20He also instructed the second, the third, and all those who followed the herds: 'This is what you are to say to Esau when you meet him.'

  • Gen 24:49
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    49Now if you are willing to show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me. If not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right or to the left.

  • Gen 30:33-34
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    33My honesty will testify for me in the future. When you check what I’ve taken as payment, if you find any in my possession that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or dark-colored among the lambs, let it be considered stolen.

    34Laban said, 'Very well, let it be as you have said.'

  • Gen 31:29-30
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    29I have the power to harm you, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

    30Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?

  • Gen 32:18
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    18He commanded the one in the lead: 'When my brother Esau meets you and asks,

  • Gen 29:19
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    19Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to another man. Stay here with me.'