30:27 But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here,56 for I have learned by divination57 that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”
tn The words “please stay here” have been supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
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tn 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.