Genesis 31:43
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Laban answered him: The daughters are mine, and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my children, and grandchildren?

Context
Jacob's Covenant with Laban
43Laban answered him: The daughters are mine, and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my children, and grandchildren?44Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.…
Cross References
Genesis 31:1
But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and being enriched by his substance is become great.

Genesis 31:55
But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.

Lexicon
But Laban
לָבָ֜ן (lā·ḇān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3837: Laban -- father-in-law of Jacob

answered
וַיַּ֨עַן (way·ya·‘an)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6030: To answer, respond

Jacob,
יַעֲקֹ֗ב (ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc

“[These] daughters
הַבָּנ֨וֹת (hab·bā·nō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

are my daughters,
בְּנֹתַ֜י (bə·nō·ṯay)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

[these] sons
וְהַבָּנִ֤ים (wə·hab·bā·nîm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

[are] my sons,
בָּנַי֙ (bā·nay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

and [these] flocks
וְהַצֹּ֣אן (wə·haṣ·ṣōn)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock

[are] my flocks!
צֹאנִ֔י (ṣō·nî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock

Everything
וְכֹ֛ל (wə·ḵōl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

you
אַתָּ֥ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

see is mine!
רֹאֶ֖ה (rō·’eh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see

Yet what
מָֽה־ (māh-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

can I do
אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֤ה (’e·‘ĕ·śeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

today
הַיּ֔וֹם (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

about these
לָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ (lā·’êl·leh)
Preposition-l | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 428: These, those

daughters
וְלִבְנֹתַ֞י (wə·liḇ·nō·ṯay)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

of mine or
א֥וֹ (’ōw)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 176: Desire, if

the children
לִבְנֵיהֶ֖ן (liḇ·nê·hen)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

they have borne?
יָלָֽדוּ׃ (yā·lā·ḏū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage


Additional Translations
But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?And Laban answered and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children which they have born?

And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom they have borne?

And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the cattle are my cattle, and all things which thou seest are mine, and the property of my daughters; what shall I do to them to-day, or their children which they bore?

And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flock is my flock, and all that thou seest is mine; but as for my daughters, what can I do this day to them, or to their sons whom they have brought forth?

And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have borne?

And Laban answered, and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children which they have borne?

Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

And Laban answereth and saith unto Jacob, 'The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that thou art seeing is mine; and to my daughters -- what do I to these to-day, or to their sons whom they have born?
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