100 Bible Verses About Labor Day

And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.

And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.

And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan–aram.

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.

But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?

And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.

And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.

And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.

And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;

And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.

And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

His sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.

And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer–sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer–sheba.

And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.

So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Thus they made a covenant at Beer–sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.

And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:

And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.

And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.