Any time a sheep was killed by wild animals, I always paid for that myself. I did not take the dead animal to you and say that it was not my fault. But I was robbed day and night.
Genesis 31:40 - Easy To Read Version In the daytime, the sun took away my strength, and at night sleep was taken from my eyes by the cold. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This was [my lot]; by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and I could not sleep. American Standard Version (1901) Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. Common English Bible The dry heat consumed me during the day, and the frost at night; I couldn’t sleep. Catholic Public Domain Version Day and night, I was burned by heat and by frost, and sleep fled from my eyes. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost; and sleep departed from my eyes. |
Any time a sheep was killed by wild animals, I always paid for that myself. I did not take the dead animal to you and say that it was not my fault. But I was robbed day and night.
I worked 20 years like a slave for you. For the first 14 years I worked to win your two daughters. The last six years I worked to earn your animals. And during that time you changed my pay ten times.
Moses’ father-in-law was named Jethro. [15] Jethro was a priest of Midian. Moses took care of Jethro’s sheep. One day, Moses led the sheep to the west side of the desert. Moses went to a mountain called Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God.
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“Jacob ran away to the land of Aram. In that place, Israel {\cf2\super [140]} worked for a wife. He kept sheep to get another wife.
\{The Lord says,\} “I gave the command for the land and the mountains to be dry. The grain, the new wine, the olive oil, and everything the earth produces will all be ruined! {\cf2\super [4]} All the people and all the animals will become weak.”
That night, some shepherds were in the fields there watching their sheep.
The Lord led you through that great and terrible desert. Poisonous snakes and scorpions [52] were in that desert! The ground was dry, and there was no water anywhere. But the Lord gave you water out of the rock.
Remember your leaders. They taught God’s message to you. Remember how they lived and died, and copy their faith.