Genesis 31:40

[Where] I was in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

In Context

39That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I had to bear the loss of it, of my hand didst thou require it, whatever was stolen by day, or stolen by night.

41These twenty years have I been in thy house; I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flocks: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

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Cross References

Exodus 2:19And they said, An Egyptian man delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds; and he also drew water for us, and watered the flock.

Psalms 78:70And he made choice of David his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds:

Hosea 12:12(12:13) And Jacob fled into the fields of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [the flocks].

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 →

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