He continued, “State the wages I owe you, and I will pay them.”
Laban said to him: “Should you serve me for nothing just because you are a relative of mine? Tell me what your wages should be.”
Laban replied, “It is better to give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”
Of the twenty years that I have now spent in your household, I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, while you changed my wages ten times.
yet your father cheated me and changed my wages ten times. God, however, did not let him do me any harm.