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What does Genesis 30:27 mean?

"Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”"

— Genesis 30:27 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

24

She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

25

When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

26

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

27

Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”

28

He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”

29

He said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

30

For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

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