and stay with him for a few days until your brother’s anger subsides #– #
Genesis 31:41 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For twenty years in your household I served you #– #fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks #– #and you have changed my wages ten times! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks; and you have changed my wages ten times. American Standard Version (1901) These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. Common English Bible I’ve now spent twenty years in your household. I worked for fourteen years for your two daughters and for six years for your flock, and you changed my pay ten times. Catholic Public Domain Version And in this way, for twenty years, I have served you in your house: fourteen for your daughters, and six for your flocks. You have also changed my wages ten times. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years; fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times. |
and stay with him for a few days until your brother’s anger subsides #– #
Laban said to him, ‘Just because you’re my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.’
I’ve been with you these twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams from your flock.
There I was #– #the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
and that he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not let him harm me.
He commanded them, ‘You are to say to my lord Esau, “This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now.
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
On frequent journeys, I faced dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, and dangers among false brothers;