Genesis 31:41

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.

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WEBBE

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.

BSB

Thus for twenty years I have served in your household— fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks— and you have changed my wages ten times!

KJV

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.

ASV

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.

BBE

These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

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זֶה־ zeh- this H2088 לִּי li [belonged] to (the) me H9030 עֶשְׂרִים 'es·rim twenty H6242 שָׁנָה sha·nah year[s] H8141 בְּבֵיתֶךָ be·vei·te·kha in household your H1004 עֲבַדְתִּיךָ 'a·vad·ti·kha I served you H5647 אַרְבַּע־ 'ar·ba'- four- H702 עֶשְׂרֵה 'es·reh teen H6240 שָׁנָה sha·nah year[s] H8141 בִּשְׁתֵּי bish·tei for [the] two H8147 בְנֹתֶיךָ ve·no·tei·kha daughters your H1323 וְשֵׁשׁ ve·shesh and six H8337 שָׁנִים sha·nim years H8141 בְּצֹאנֶךָ be·tzo·ne·kha for flock[s] your H6629 וַתַּחֲלֵף va·ta·cha·lef and you changed H2498 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 מַשְׂכֻּרְתִּי mas·kur·ti wage[s] my H4909 עֲשֶׂרֶת 'a·se·ret ten H6235 מֹנִים mo·nim times H4489

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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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.