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

Genesis 30:27

27 But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, ^{▼▼ The words “please stay here” have been supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.} for I have learned by divination ^{▼▼ 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.} that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”