Bible verse
Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
Genesis 29:14 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 29.
10 As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
12 He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.
13 When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
14 Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
15 Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
16 Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
17 Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.
18 Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
KJV
And Laban said to him, Surely thou [art] my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
ASV
And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
ERV
And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
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