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Genesis 31:41-43
Contemporary English Version
Genesis 31:41-43
Contemporary English Version
41 I had to work 14 of these 20 long years to earn your two daughters and another 6 years to buy your sheep and goats. During that time you kept changing my wages. 42 If the fearsome God[a] worshiped by Abraham and my father Isaac had not been on my side, you would have sent me away without a thing. But God saw my hard work, and he knew the trouble I was in, so he helped me. Then last night he told you how wrong you were.
Jacob and Laban Make an Agreement
43 Laban said to Jacob, “Leah and Rachel are my daughters, and their children belong to me. All these sheep you are taking are really mine too. In fact, everything you have belongs to me. But there is nothing I can do to keep my daughters and their children.
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- 31.42 fearsome God: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
Genesis 31:41-43
New International Version
Genesis 31:41-43
New International Version
41 It was like this for the twenty years(A) I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters(B) and six years for your flocks,(C) and you changed my wages(D) ten times.(E) 42 If the God of my father,(F) the God of Abraham(G) and the Fear of Isaac,(H) had not been with me,(I) you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands,(J) and last night he rebuked you.(K)”
43 Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks.(L) All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?
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