Holy Scripture
Genesis 30:26
A church father on this verse
“Nothing is really more efficacious than meekness and nothing more powerful than it. See at any rate how, by a disarming use of meekness, Jacob also brought Laban to reply to him with great deference. "Laban replied to him," the text goes on, remember, "If I have found favor in your sight, and the omens do not deceive…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
26Restore my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart, for thou knowest the service wherewith I have served thee.
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In context
24And she called his name Joseph, saying, Let God add to me another son.
25And it came to pass when Rachel had born Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my place and to my land.
— Genesis 30:26 —
27And Laban said to him, If I have found grace in thy sight, I would augur well, for the Lord has blessed me at thy coming in.
28Appoint me thy wages, and I will give them.