After these things the word of the LORD came to Avram in a vision, saying, *Don't be afraid, Avram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.*
Genesis 31:7 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me. American Standard Version (1901) And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. Common English Bible But your father cheated me and changed my payment ten times. Yet God didn’t let him harm me. Catholic Public Domain Version Even so, your father has circumvented me, and he has changed my wages ten times. And yet God has not permitted him to harm me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Yea, your father also hath over-reached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me. |
After these things the word of the LORD came to Avram in a vision, saying, *Don't be afraid, Avram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.*
God said to him in the dream, *Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.
It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Le'ah. He said to Lavan, *What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?*
God came to Lavan, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, *Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Ya`akov either good or bad.*
It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Ya`akov either good or bad.'
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, You must return to us.
Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.
He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
For the LORD loves justice, and doesn't forsake his holy ones. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, *We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.*
No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness which is of me, says the LORD.
In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.
When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Thus says the LORD of Armies: *In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'*
because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;