Genesis 30:28

28 name your wages, and I will give it."

Genesis 30:28 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 30:28

And he said, appoint me thy wages, and I will give [it].
] Say what thou wilt have, fix what salary thou thinkest sufficient, and I will agree to it, and punctually pay it: this he craftily said, not choosing to propose anything himself, but leaving it to Jacob, knowing very well the honesty and modesty of Jacob, that he would mention less wages than he could have the face to offer him.

Genesis 30:28 In-Context

26 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."

27 But Laban said to him, "If you will allow me to say so, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you;

28 name your wages, and I will give it."

29 Jacob said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me.

30 For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly; and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?"