Genesis 31:41 - Tree of Life Version This is how it’s been for me twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks—and you changed my salary 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. |
Then Laban said to Jacob, “Should you, my relative, serve me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?”
These past twenty years I’ve been with you, your ewes and female goats have never miscarried, and I’ve never eaten the rams of your flock.
I was consumed by heat during the day, consumed by frost during the night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Now you yourselves know that I’ve served your father with all my strength.
Yet your father has fooled around with me and has changed my salary ten times—but God hasn’t allowed him to harm me.
Then Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace toward me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than them all—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
In my many journeys I have been in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the desert, dangers in the sea, dangers among false brothers,