Genesis 30:25
Good News Translation
After the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Let me go, so that I can return home.

New Revised Standard Version
When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.

Contemporary English Version
After Joseph was born, Jacob said to Laban, "Release me from our agreement and let me return to my own country.

New American Bible
After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban: “Allow me to go to my own region and land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.

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And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.

Send me away.

Genesis 24:54,56 And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master. . . .

mine.

Genesis 18:33 And the Lord departed, after he had left speaking to Abraham: and Abraham returned to his place.

Genesis 31:55 But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.

and to.

Genesis 24:6,7 And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither. . . .

Genesis 26:3 And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.

Genesis 27:44,45 And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till the wrath of thy brother be assuaged, . . .

Genesis 28:13,15 And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed. . . .

Genesis 31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.

Acts 7:4,5 Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charan. And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell. . . .

Hebrews 11:9,15,16 By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise. . . .

Context
Jacob Prospers
25And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.26Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:54
And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master.

Genesis 24:56
Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may go to my master.

Genesis 30:24
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