Genesis 30:26 Cross References

Genesis 30:26

26: Let me take my wives and children, for I have earned them from you, and let me be on my way. You know I have fully paid for them with my service to you."

Genesis 29:30

  1. So Jacob slept with Rachel, too, and he loved her more than Leah. He then stayed and worked the additional seven years.

Hosea 12:12

  1. Jacob fled to the land of Aram and earned a wife by tending sheep.

Genesis 31:31

  1. "I rushed away because I was afraid," Jacob answered. "I said to myself, `He'll take his daughters from me by force.'

Genesis 31:38

  1. "Twenty years I have been with you, and all that time I cared for your sheep and goats so they produced healthy offspring. In all those years I never touched a single ram of yours for food.
  2. If any were attacked and killed by wild animals, did I show them to you and ask you to reduce the count of your flock? No, I took the loss! You made me pay for every animal stolen from the flocks, whether the loss was my fault or not.
  3. I worked for you through the scorching heat of the day and through cold and sleepless nights.
  4. Yes, twenty years--fourteen of them earning your two daughters, and six years to get the flock. And you have reduced my wages ten times!

Genesis 29:19

  1. "Agreed!" Laban replied. "I'd rather give her to you than to someone outside the family."
  2. So Jacob spent the next seven years working to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.

Genesis 31:26

  1. "What do you mean by sneaking off like this?" Laban demanded. "Are my daughters prisoners, the plunder of war, that you have stolen them away like this?

Genesis 31:6

  1. You know how hard I have worked for your father,

Genesis 30:29

  1. Jacob replied, "You know how faithfully I've served you through these many years, and how your flocks and herds have grown.
  2. You had little indeed before I came, and your wealth has increased enormously. The LORD has blessed you from everything I do! But now, what about me? When should I provide for my own family?"
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