Genesis 31:38

“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.

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WEBBE

“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.

BSB

I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.

KJV

This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

ASV

These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.

BBE

These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.

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זֶה zeh this H2088 עֶשְׂרִים 'es·rim twenty H6242 שָׁנָה sha·nah year[s] H8141 אָנֹכִי 'a·no·khi I H595 עִמָּךְ 'i·makh [have been] with you H5973 רְחֵלֶיךָ re·che·lei·kha ewes your H7353 וְעִזֶּיךָ ve·'i·zei·kha and female goats your H5795 לֹא lo' not H3808 שִׁכֵּלוּ shi·ke·lu they have miscarried H7921 וְאֵילֵי ve·'ei·lei and [the] rams of H352 צֹאנְךָ tzo·ne·kha flock your H6629 לֹא lo' not H3808 אָכָלְתִּי 'a·khal·ti I have eaten H398

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 36–42

If Jacob were willingly consumed with heat in the day, and frost by night, to become the son-in-law of Laban, what should we refuse to endure, to become the sons of God? Jacob speaks of God as the God of his father; he thought himself unworthy to be regarded, but was beloved for his father's sake. He calls him the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac; for Abraham was dead, and gone to that world where perfect love casts out fear; but Isaac was yet alive, sanctifying the Lord in his heart, as his fear and his dread.

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