Genesis 31:15

Jacob Flees From Laban

¹⁴ Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there still any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? ¹⁵ Are we not counted by him as foreigners? For he sold us [to you in marriage], and has also entirely used up our purchase price. ¹⁶ Surely all the riches which God has taken from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has told you to do, do it.”

For Us

Genesis 29:15-20

Then Laban said to Jacob, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?”

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the work which I have done for you.”

Genesis 29:27-30

Finish the week [of the wedding feast] for Leah; then we will give you Rachel also, and in return you shall work for me for seven more years.”

Genesis 31:41

These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for [my share of] your flocks, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Exodus 21:7-11

“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go free [after six years] as male servants do.

Nehemiah 5:8

I said to them, “According to our ability we have redeemed (purchased back) our Jewish brothers who were sold to the [Gentile] nations; now would you even sell your brothers, that they might be sold to us?” Then they were silent and could not find a [single] word to say.