Genesis 31:6

and you have known that with all my power I have served your father,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

In Context

5and says to them, “I am beholding your father’s face—that it is not toward me as before, and the God of my father has been with me,

7and your father has played on me, and has changed my hire ten times; and God has not permitted him to do evil with me.

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Cross References

Genesis 30:29And he says to him, “You have known that which I have served you [in], and that which your substance was with me;

Genesis 31:41This [is] to me twenty years in your house: I have served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock; and you change my hire ten times;

Colossians 3:22the servants: obey those who are masters in all things according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

1 Peter 2:18Servants, be subject in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the crooked;

Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:2-17

Jacob's Departure. ( b. c. 1739.) 1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 3 And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5 And said unto them, I see your father's… Read the whole commentary →

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