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Genesis 31:41

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It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

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yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me.

I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

“I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

Stay with him for a while until your brother’s fury subsides.

Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

He added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”

This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.

You know that I’ve worked for your father with all my strength,




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