Genesis 29:15
Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”
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Genesis 29:15
Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”
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Genesis 29:12
Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.
Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
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Genesis 29:11
Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
Genesis 29:13
When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
Genesis 29:14
Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.
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Genesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
Genesis 29:19
Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
Genesis 29:20
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
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Genesis 29:16
Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Genesis 29:17
Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
Judges 14:10
His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.
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Genesis 27:36
He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”
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2 Samuel 9:1
David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”
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Genesis 30:28
He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”
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Genesis 31:15
Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.
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Judges 9:3
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.”
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Judges 14:1
Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
Judges 14:2
He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”
Judges 14:3
Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
Judges 14:4
But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
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Judges 14:5
Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.
Judges 14:6
Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.
Judges 14:7
He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
Judges 14:8
After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
Judges 14:9
He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body.
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