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BrLXXΔιάστειλον τὸν μισθόν σου πρός με, καὶ δώσω. (Diasteilon ton misthon sou pros me, kai dōsō. )
BrTrAppoint [fn]me thy wages, and I will give them.
YLTHe saith also, 'Define thy hire to me, and I give.'
DrbyAnd he said, Appoint to me thy wages, and I will give it.
RVAnd he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
WbstrAnd he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
KJB-1769And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. (And he said, Appoint me thy/your wages, and I will give it. )
KJB-1611And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will giue it. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)
BshpsAlso he sayde: Appoynt what thy rewarde shalbe, and I wyll geue it thee. (Also he said: Appoynt what thy/your reward shalbe, and I will give it thee/you.)
GnvaAlso he said, Appoynt vnto me thy wages, and I will giue it thee. (Also he said, Appoynt unto me thy/your wages, and I will give it thee/you. )
CvdlAppoynte thou the rewarde, yt I shal geue the. (Appoynte thou/you the rewarde, it I shall give them.)
Wyclordeyne thou the meede which Y schal yyue to thee. (ordeyne thou/you the meede which I shall give to thee/you.)
LuthStimme den Lohn, den ich dir geben soll. (voice the Lohn, the I you/to_you give soll.)
ClVgconstitue mercedem tuam quam dem tibi. (constitue mercedem tuam how dem tibi. )
30:25-34 After his fourteen years of service, Jacob asked Laban for permission to go home. The two bedouin leaders negotiated politely but remained cautiously on guard. Laban wanted to get more out of Jacob. Jacob wanted to gain his wages by selective breeding.
Some translations delete this quote margin, since the same person is still speaking to the same person as in the previous verse. However it could be that there was a pause in the conversation, or the author may want to show that there is a change in topic or emphasize what is said next. So if possible, it is best to keep the quote margin here in your translation. Alternate translation: “Then he said to him,” or “Then Laban added,”
נָקְבָ֧ה שְׂכָרְךָ֛ עָלַ֖י וְאֶתֵּֽנָה
name, wages,your to,me and,give
See how you translated wages in Gen 29:15. Alternate translation: “Tell me what you want your wages to be, and that is what I will give you.” or “Tell me what you want me to pay you, and I will give that to you.” or “Set your wages, and that is what they will be.”
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
