Genesis 29:19
Good News Translation
Laban answered, "I would rather give her to you than to anyone else; stay here with me."

New Revised Standard Version
Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.”

Contemporary English Version
Laban replied, "It's better for me to let you marry Rachel than for someone else to have her. So stay and work for me."

New American Bible
Laban replied, “It is better to give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me.

Psalm 12:2 They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

Isaiah 6:5,11 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts. . . .

Context
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
18And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter. 19Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me.20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.…
Cross References
Genesis 29:18
And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter.

Genesis 29:20
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.

Genesis 29:18
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