Genesis 30:28
Hebrew Text— Genesis 30:28He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”
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Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”
His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, “He is our brother.”
Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.
Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,
Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.