And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

Lahan answered: It is better that I give her thee than to another man; stay with me.

and Laban saith, 'It is better for me to give her to thee than to give her to another man; dwell with me;'

And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.

Laban responded, "It is better that I give her to you than to another man; remain with me."

Tunc dixit Laban, Melius est ut dem eam tibi, quam dem eam viro alteri: mane mecum.

And Laban said,.... Deceitfully, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, pretending great respect for Jacob, and that what he had proposed was very agreeable to him, when he meant to impose upon him:
it is better that I should give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man; by which he not only intimates that he preferred him, a relation, to another man, a stranger; but as if he did not insist upon the servitude for her, but would give her to him; unless he means upon the terms proposed, and so it should seem by what follows:
abide with me: the term of seven years, and serve me; suggesting, that then he agreed Rachel should be his wife; and so Jacob, a plain hearted man, understood him; but he designed no such thing.