Genesis 31:15

WEB

¹⁵Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.

KJV

¹⁵Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

BSB

¹⁵Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.

FBV

¹⁵“He treats us like foreigners because he sold us to you, and now he's spent all that money.

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Extra References

Genesis 29:15-20

¹⁵Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

¹⁶Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. ¹⁷Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive. ¹⁸Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

¹⁹Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

²⁰Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Genesis 31:41

⁴¹These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Nehemiah 5:8

⁸I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

Genesis 30:26

²⁶Give 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.”

Exodus 21:7-11

⁷“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do. ⁸If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. ⁹If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter. ¹⁰If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. ¹¹If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

Genesis 29:27-30

²⁷Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”

²⁸Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife. ²⁹Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant. ³⁰He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.