Discovery Box| (1.00) | Gen 29:27 |
| Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. 1 Then we will give you the younger one 2 too, in exchange for seven more years of work.” 3 |
| (1.00) | Gen 29:28 |
| Jacob did as Laban said. 1 When Jacob 2 completed Leah’s bridal week, 3 Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 4 |
| (1.00) | Gen 29:30 |
| Jacob 1 had marital relations 2 with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban 3 for seven more years. 4 |
| (1.00) | Gen 30:26 |
| Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you. 1 Then I’ll depart, 2 because you know how hard I’ve worked for you.” 3 |
| (1.00) | Gen 30:29 |
| “You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, 1 “and how well your livestock have fared under my care. 2 |
| (1.00) | Gen 30:30 |
| Indeed, 1 you had little before I arrived, 2 but now your possessions have increased many times over. 3 The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. 4 But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” 5 |
| (1.00) | Gen 30:31 |
| So Laban asked, 1 “What should I give you?” “You don’t need to give me a thing,” 2 Jacob replied, 3 “but if you agree to this one condition, 4 I will continue to care for 5 your flocks and protect them: |
| (1.00) | Gen 30:34 |
| “Agreed!” said Laban, “It will be as you say.” 1 |
| (1.00) | Gen 31:1 |
| Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining, 1 “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich 2 at our father’s expense!” 3 |
| (1.00) | Gen 31:4 |
| So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah 1 to come to the field 2 where his flocks were. 3 |
| (1.00) | Gen 31:6 |
| You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could, 1 |
| (1.00) | Gen 31:15 |
| Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted 1 the money paid for us! 2 |
| (1.00) | Gen 31:24 |
| But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him, 1 “Be careful 2 that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.” 3 |
| (1.00) | Gen 31:27 |
| Why did you run away secretly 1 and deceive me? 2 Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps? 3 |
| (1.00) | Gen 31:38 |
| “I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. |
| (1.00) | Gen 31:40 |
| I was consumed by scorching heat 1 during the day and by piercing cold 2 at night, and I went without sleep. 3 |
| (1.00) | Gen 31:41 |
| This was my lot 1 for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave 2 for you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times! |
| (1.00) | Gen 31:42 |
| If the God of my father – the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears 1 – had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, 2 and he rebuked you last night.” |
| (1.00) | Gen 31:53 |
| May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, 1 the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared. 2 |
| (1.00) | Gen 31:54 |
| Then Jacob offered a sacrifice 1 on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. 2 They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain. |
