Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

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."

New American Standard Bible

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me depart; for you yourself know my service which I have rendered you.”

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

Give me my wives and my children that I have worked for, and let me go. You know how hard I have worked for you.”

International Standard Version

Give me my wives and children for whom I've served you. Then I'll leave, since you're aware of my service to you."

A Conservative Version

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go, for thou know my service with which I have served thee.

American Standard Version

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.

Amplified

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the work which I have done for you.”

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

Give me my wives for whom I have served thee, and my children; that I may go away, for thou knowest my service which I have served thee.

Julia Smith Translation

Give my wives and my children, for whom I served thee, and I will go forth; for thou knewest ray work which I served thee.

King James 2000

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 you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Give [me] my wives and my children for which I have served you, and let me go. For you yourself know my service that I have rendered to you."

Modern King James verseion

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 you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what service I have done thee."

NET Bible

Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you. Then I'll depart, because you know how hard I've worked for you."

The Emphasized Bible

Come, give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee and let me take my journey, - for, thou, knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

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."

Youngs Literal Translation

give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go; for thou -- thou hast known my service which I have served thee.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

me my wives
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

and my children
ילד 
Yeled 
Usage: 89

for
הן 
hen 
Usage: 16

עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

thee, and let me go
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

my service
עבודה עבדה 
`abodah 
Usage: 146

עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

References

Morish

Context Readings

Jacob's Prosperity

25 It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country. 26 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." 27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."

Cross References

Genesis 29:30

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

Genesis 29:19-20

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

Genesis 30:29-30

He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

Genesis 31:6

You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

Genesis 31:26

Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

Genesis 31:31

Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'

Genesis 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.

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