Thematic Bible: Unjust, laban to jacob

Yet your father has cheated me [as often as possible] and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to hurt me. Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitMastersServants, Working Conditions OfServants, GoodMasters Duties Towards ServantsEmployers, Bad ExamplesTen TimesChangeGod Forbiddingcheaters

Finally, Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my time is completed, so that I may take her to me. And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast [with drinking]. But when night came, he took Leah his daughter and brought her to [Jacob], who had intercourse with her.

I did not bring you [the carcasses of the animals] torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss of it; you required of me [to make good] all that was stolen, whether it occurred by day or by night. This was [my lot]; by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and I could not sleep. I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks; and you have changed my wages ten times. read more.
And if the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Dread [lest he should fall] and Fear [lest he offend] of Isaac, had not been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and humiliation and the [wearying] labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.