Genesis 31:41
I really worked like a slave for you all those 20 years. I worked the first 14 years to pay for your daughters and the last 6 years to get my animals. And in all that time you changed what you owed me 10 times.
Barkly (portions)
In The King James Version
In Context
40I got weak working hard in the sun all day and I was so cold at night, I could not sleep.
Cross References
Genesis 29:27I tell you what. At the end of one week I will let you marry Rachel as well. But you will have to stay and work for me for another 7 years.”
Genesis 31:6You both know that I have worked really hard for your father. And you know that he has cheated me and changed what he owes me 10 times, but God has stopped him from hurting me. Your father said, ‘You can have all the spotty animals as your pay.’ And that is what happened, all the mother animals had babies with spots. Then your father changed his mind and said, ‘You can have all the animals that have stripes for your pay.’ And again, that is what happened, all the mother animals had babies with stripes.
Genesis 31:38I worked for you for 20 years. None of your baby lambs or goats died when they were born. I never ate any of your boy sheep.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:37-43
36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? 37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. 38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beasts I… Read the whole commentary →