Bible Cross References
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Genesis 31:38
I have been with you now for twenty years; your sheep and your goats have not failed to reproduce, and I have not eaten any rams from your flocks.
Genesis 29:18-30
18
Jacob was in love with Rachel, so he said, "I will work seven years for you, if you will let me marry Rachel."
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Laban answered, "I would rather give her to you than to anyone else; stay here with me."
20
Jacob worked seven years so that he could have Rachel, and the time seemed like only a few days to him, because he loved her.
21
Then Jacob said to Laban, "The time is up; let me marry your daughter."
22
So Laban gave a wedding feast and invited everyone.
23
But that night, instead of Rachel, he took Leah to Jacob, and Jacob had intercourse with her.
24
(Laban gave his slave woman Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maid.)
25
Not until the next morning did Jacob discover that it was Leah. He went to Laban and said, "Why did you do this to me? I worked to get Rachel. Why have you tricked me?"
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Laban answered, "It is not the custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
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Wait until the week's marriage celebrations are over, and I will give you Rachel, if you will work for me another seven years."
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Jacob agreed, and when the week of marriage celebrations was over, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
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(Laban gave his slave woman Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maid.)
30
Jacob had intercourse with Rachel also, and he loved her more than Leah. Then he worked for Laban another seven years.
Genesis 30:33-40
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In the future you can easily find out if I have been honest. When you come to check up on my wages, if I have any goat that isn't speckled or spotted or any sheep that isn't black, you will know that it has been stolen."
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Laban answered, "Agreed. We will do as you suggest."
35
But that day Laban removed the male goats that had stripes or spots and all the females that were speckled and spotted or which had white on them; he also removed all the black sheep. He put his sons in charge of them,
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and then went away from Jacob with this flock as far as he could travel in three days. Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flocks.
37
Jacob got green branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees and stripped off some of the bark so that the branches had white stripes on them.
38
He placed these branches in front of the flocks at their drinking troughs. He put them there, because the animals mated when they came to drink.
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So when the goats bred in front of the branches, they produced young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
40
Jacob kept the sheep separate from the goats and made them face in the direction of the streaked and black animals of Laban's flock. In this way he built up his own flock and kept it apart from Laban's.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by God's grace I am what I am, and the grace that he gave me was not without effect. On the contrary, I have worked harder than any of the other apostles, although it was not really my own doing, but God's grace working with me.
2 Corinthians 11:26
In my many travels I have been in danger from floods and from robbers, in danger from my own people and from Gentiles; there have been dangers in the cities, dangers in the wilds, dangers on the high seas, and dangers from false friends.