Genesis 30:27

30:27 But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, ¹  for I have learned by divination ²  that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”

Genesis 30:30

30:30 Indeed, ³  you had little before I arrived, ⁴  but now your possessions have increased many times over. ⁵  The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. ⁶  But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” ⁷ 

¹ tn The words “please stay here” have been supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

² tn Or perhaps “I have grown rich and the Lord has blessed me” (cf. NEB). See J. Finkelstein, “An Old Babylonian Herding Contract and Genesis 31:38f.,” JAOS 88 (1968): 34, n. 19.

³ tn Or “for.”

⁴ tn Heb “before me.”

⁵ tn Heb “and it has broken out with respect to abundance.”

⁶ tn Heb “at my foot.”

⁷ tn Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”