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Genesis 31:41

New American Bible - revised edition

Of the twenty years that I have now spent in your household, I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, while you changed my wages ten times.

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and stay with him a while until your brother’s fury subsides—

Laban said to him: “Should you serve me for nothing just because you are a relative of mine? Tell me what your wages should be.”

He continued, “State the wages I owe you, and I will pay them.”

“In the twenty years that I was under you, no ewe or she-goat of yours ever miscarried, and I have never eaten rams of your flock.

Often the scorching heat devoured me by day, and the frost by night, while sleep fled from my eyes!

You know well that with all my strength I served your father;

yet your father cheated me and changed my wages ten times. God, however, did not let him do me any harm.

Jacob sent messengers ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been ineffective. Indeed, I have toiled harder than all of them; not I, however, but the grace of God [that is] with me.

on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own race, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, dangers among false brothers;




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