Genesis 30:34

And Laban says, “Behold, O that it were according to your word”;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

In Context

33and my righteousness has answered for me in the day to come, when it comes in for my hire before your face—everyone which is not speckled and spotted among [my] goats, and brown among [my] lambs—it is stolen with me.”

35and he turns aside during that day the striped and the spotted male goats, and all the speckled and the spotted female goats, everyone that [has] white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he gives into the hand of his sons,

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:7for I wish all men to be even as I myself [am]; but each has his own gift of God, one indeed thus and one thus.

Galatians 5:12O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!

Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:26-37

Jacob's Bargain with Laban. ( b. c. 1745.) 25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. 26 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. 27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake. 28 And he said, Appoint me thy… Read the whole commentary →

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