Genesis 30:26

Jacob's Prosperity

²⁵ Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country. ²⁶ Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have been your servant, and let me go: for you have knowledge of all the work I have done for you. ²⁷ And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.

My Children

Genesis 29:30

Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.

Hosea 12:12

And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Genesis 29:19-20

And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.

Genesis 30:29-30

Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.

Genesis 31:6

And you have seen how I have done all in my power for your father,

Genesis 31:26

And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?

Genesis 31:31

And Jacob, in answer, said to Laban, My fear was that you might take your daughters from me by force.

Genesis 31:38-41

These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.