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Genesis 31:41-42
New English Translation
Genesis 31:41-42
New English Translation
41 This was my lot[a] for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave[b] for you—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—but you changed my wages ten times! 42 If the God of my father—the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears[c]—had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked,[d] and he rebuked you last night.”
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- Genesis 31:41 tn Heb “this to me.”
- Genesis 31:41 tn Heb “served you,” but in this accusatory context the meaning is more “worked like a slave.”
- Genesis 31:42 tn Heb “the fear of Isaac,” that is, the one whom Isaac feared and respected. For further discussion of this title see M. Malul, “More on pahad yitschaq (Gen. 31:42, 53) and the Oath by the Thigh,” VT 35 (1985): 192-200.
- Genesis 31:42 tn Heb “My oppression and the work of my hands God saw.”
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