After these things the word of Adonai came to Abram in a vision saying, “Do not fear, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
Genesis 31:7 - Tree of Life Version Yet your father has fooled around with me and has changed my salary ten times—but God hasn’t allowed him to harm 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 Adonai came to Abram in a vision saying, “Do not fear, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
Then God said to him in a dream, “Yes, I myself knew that you did this with integrity of your heart, so I, yes I Myself prevented you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not allow you to touch her.
So when it was morning, behold there she was, Leah! So he said to Laban, “What is this you’ve done to me? Wasn’t it for Rachel that I worked with you? So why have you deceived me?”
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Watch yourself—lest you say anything to Jacob, good or bad.”
It is in the power of my hand to do evil with you, but yesterday the God of your fathers spoke to me, saying, ‘Watch yourself—lest you say anything to Jacob, good or bad.’
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!
So each of the builders had his sword strapped to his side while they were building, and the shofar blower was beside me.
Have you not made a hedge around him, his household, and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands and his possessions have increased in the land.
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has shrouded my path in darkness.
For Adonai loves justice and does not abandon His godly ones. They will be preserved forever, but the seed of the wicked will be cut off.
Seven women will grab hold of one man in that day, saying: “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel. Only let us be called by your name— take away our reproach!”
No weapon formed against you will prosper and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Adonai’s servants— their vindication is from Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers throughout his realm.
When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “In those days it will come to pass that ten men from every language of the nations will grasp the corner of the garment of a Jew saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
none of the people who saw My glory and My miraculous signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet tested Me these ten times and did not obey My Voice—