Genesis 31:15 Cross References

Genesis 31:15

15: He has reduced our rights to those of foreign women. He sold us, and what he received for us has disappeared.

Genesis 29:15

  1. Laban said to him, "You shouldn't work for me without pay just because we are relatives. How much do you want?"
  2. Now Laban had two daughters: Leah, who was the oldest, and her younger sister, Rachel.
  3. Leah had pretty eyes, but Rachel was beautiful in every way, with a lovely face and shapely figure.
  4. Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he told her father, "I'll work for you seven years if you'll give me Rachel, your younger daughter, as my wife."
  5. "Agreed!" Laban replied. "I'd rather give her to you than to someone outside the family."

Genesis 30:26

  1. 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."

Nehemiah 5:8

  1. At the meeting I said to them, "The rest of us are doing all we can to redeem our Jewish relatives who have had to sell themselves to pagan foreigners, but you are selling them back into slavery again. How often must we redeem them?" And they had nothing to say in their defense.

Genesis 29:27

  1. "Wait until the bridal week is over, and you can have Rachel, too--that is, if you promise to work another seven years for me."
  2. So Jacob agreed to work seven more years. A week after Jacob had married Leah, Laban gave him Rachel, too.
  3. And Laban gave Rachel a servant, Bilhah, to be her maid.
  4. So Jacob slept with Rachel, too, and he loved her more than Leah. He then stayed and worked the additional seven years.

Genesis 31:41

  1. 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!

Exodus 21:7

  1. "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.
  2. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.
  3. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter.
  4. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife.
  5. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.
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