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Genesis 31:41

This, hath been my lot twenty years in thy house,—I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, And six years for thy sheep—And thou didst change my wages ten times:—

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

40Thus have I been—By day, drought hath consumed me, And, frost, by, night,—So that my sleep fled away from mine eyes.

42But that the God of my father—The God of Abraham, and the Dread of Isaac—Proved to be mine, Surely even now, empty, hadst thou let me go? My humiliation and the wearying toil of my hands, God had seen, And therefore gave sentence last night!

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Cross References

Genesis 29:27Fulfil the week of this one,—then must we give thee, the other one also, for the service wherewith thou shalt serve with me, yet seven years more.

Genesis 31:6and, ye, know that with all my vigour, have I served your father.

Genesis 31:38This twenty years’ time, 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,

2 Corinthians 11:26In journeyings oft, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils by the sea, in perils among false brethren,

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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