Genesis 30:26

26 Give me my wives and my children and let me go. I have earned them by working for you, and you know that I have served you well."

Genesis 30:26 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 30:26

Give [me] my wives
His two wives, Leah and Rachel, and the two maids, Bilhah and Zilpah, which he had given him for wives also; he desires leave not to have them, but to take them away with him: and my children;
his twelve children; he did not desire his father-in- law to take any of them, and keep them for him, but was desirous of having them with him: no doubt, for the sake of their education, though he had nothing of his own wherewith to support them; not doubting that God would make good his promise in giving him food and raiment, and returning him to his country; and which his faith applied to his family as well as to himself: for whom I have served thee;
not for his children, but for his wives, his two wives; and let me go;
free from thy service, and to my own country; for thou knowest my service which I have done thee:
how much and great it is, and with what diligence and faithfulness it has been performed, and that the time of it fixed and agreed upon was at an end.

Genesis 30:26 In-Context

24 and she named him Joseph. Rachel said, "I wish the Lord would give me another son."
25 After the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Now let me go to my own home and country.
26 Give me my wives and my children and let me go. I have earned them by working for you, and you know that I have served you well."
27 Laban said to him, "If I have pleased you, please stay. I know the Lord has blessed me because of you.
28 Tell me what I should pay you, and I will give it to you."
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