Genesis 29:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than to another man. Stay and live with me.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Laban said, “I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Laban responded, "It is better that I give her to you than to another man; remain with me."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ Lahan answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me.

Genesis 29:19 Cross References

Genesis 29:18

Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Genesis 29:20

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

Psalm 12:2

They utter lies to each other; with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said, “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate;

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.