Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
- BSB Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”
- NKJV Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service which I have done for you.”
- NASB Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you yourself know my service which I have rendered you.”
- NLT Let me take my wives and children, for I have earned them by serving you, and let me be on my way. You certainly know how hard I have worked for you.”
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Cross-references · 8
- Gen 29:30He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Hos 12:12Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
- Gen 29:19–20Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
- Gen 31:26Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
- Gen 31:31Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
- Gen 31:38–41“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
- Gen 31:6You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
- Gen 30:29–30He said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
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