“And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?”
Laban answered Jacob: the women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne? The assertion of ownership paired with the admission of powerlessness is Laban's acknowledgment that he has met the boundary of his authority. The application: the person who asserts ownership of everything while admitting powerlessness to act on it is the person who has encountered the limit of what their claims can accomplish.
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