Genesis 31:40

I was parched with heat by day, and chilled with frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 taken of beasts I brought not to you; I made good of myself the thefts of the day, and the thefts of the night.

41These twenty years have I been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years among your sheep, and you did falsely rate my wages for ten lambs.

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Cross References

Exodus 2:19And they said, An Egyptian delivered us from the shepherds, and drew water for us and watered our sheep.

Hosea 12:12And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.

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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