Genesis 30:26
Good News Translation
Give me my wives and children that I have earned by working for you, and I will leave. You know how well I have served you."

New Revised Standard Version
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know very well the service I have given you.”

Contemporary English Version
You know how hard I've worked for you, so let me take my wives and children and leave."

New American Bible
Give me my wives and my children for whom I served you and let me go, for you know the service that I rendered you.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.

my wives.

Genesis 29:19,20,30 Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me. . . .

Genesis 31:26,31,41 And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword? . . .

Hosea 12:12 Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.

for thou.

Genesis 30:29,30 But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands. . . .

Genesis 31:6,38-40 And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power. . . .

Context
Jacob Prospers
25And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land. 26Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.27Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned, by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.…
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.

Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.

Genesis 30:25
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