Genesis 31:40

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I sweated every day, and I couldn't sleep at night because of the cold.

Cross References

Genesis 31:39

If a wild animal killed one of your sheep or goats, I paid for it myself. In fact, you demanded the full price, whether the animal was killed during the day or at night.

Genesis 31:41

I had to work fourteen of these twenty long years to earn your two daughters and another six years to buy your sheep and goats. During that time you kept changing my wages.

Exodus 3:1

One day, Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and Moses decided to lead them across the desert to Sinai, the holy mountain.

Proverbs 31:18

She knows when to buy or sell, and she stays busy until late at night.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob escaped to Syria where he tended sheep to earn himself a wife.

Haggai 1:11

And so, at my command everything will become barren—your farmland and pastures, your vineyards and olive trees, your animals and you yourselves. All your hard work will be for nothing.

Luke 2:8

That night in the fields near Bethlehem some shepherds were guarding their sheep.

Deuteronomy 8:15

Remember how he led you in that huge and frightening desert where poisonous snakes and scorpions live. There was no water, but the LORD split open a rock, and water poured out so you could drink.

Hebrews 13:7

Don't forget about your leaders who taught you God's message. Remember what kind of lives they lived and try to have faith like theirs.