Genesis 31:41

These twenty years have I served in thy house; fourteen years for thy two daughters; and six years for thy sheep; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

40(Thus) have I been; in the day the heat devoured me, and the frost came down upon me at night, and sleep passed away from my eyes.

42Unless the God of my fathers, the God of Abraham, and He whom Izhak hath feared, had been my helper, even now thou hadst sent me away empty: but my labour, and the travail of my hands, have been manifest before the Lord, and He rebuked thee in the evening.

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Cross References

Genesis 29:27Fulfil this week, and I will give thee also that, for the service that thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

Genesis 31:6And you know that with all my strength I have served your father;

Genesis 31:38These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy goats have not failed, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten.

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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