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Genesis 31:7

World English Bible

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

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Genesis 31:7 in other translations

And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

Genesis 31:7 · American Standard Version

Genesis 31:7 in context

  1. 5and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
  2. 6You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
  3. 7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
  4. 8If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
  5. 9Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.