Genesis 31:41
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.
KJV
Sicque per viginti annos in domo tua servivi tibi, quatuordecim pro filiabus, et sex pro gregibus tuis : immutasti quoque mercedem meam decem vicibus.
Vulgate
ταῦτά μοι εἴκοσι ἔτη ἐγώ εἰμι ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ σου· ἐδούλευσά σοι δέκα καὶ τέσσερα ἔτη ἀντὶ τῶν δύο θυγατέρων σου καὶ ἓξ ἔτη ἐν τοῖς προβάτοις σου, καὶ παρελογίσω ⸆ τὸν μισθόν μου δέκα ἀμνάσιν.
LXX
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.
ASV
זֶה לִּ֞/י עֶשְׂרִ֣ים שָׁנָה֮ בְּ/בֵיתֶ/ךָ֒ עֲבַדְתִּ֜י/ךָ אַרְבַּֽע עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ בִּ/שְׁתֵּ֣י בְנֹתֶ֔י/ךָ וְ/שֵׁ֥שׁ שָׁנִ֖ים בְּ/צֹאנֶ֑/ךָ וַ/תַּחֲלֵ֥ף אֶת מַשְׂכֻּרְתִּ֖/י עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת מֹנִֽים
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Further proofs of the same proposition, drawn from the promises made by Christ, when He declared that He would drink of the fruit of the vine with His disciples in His Father's kingdom, while at the same time He promised to reward them an hundred-fold, and to make them partake of banquets. The blessing pronounced by Jacob had pointed out this already, as Papias and the elders h…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:10 — But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- 2Cor 11:26 — In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, i
- Gen 29:18 — And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
- Gen 29:18 — And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
- Gen 29:30 — And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Gen 30:33 — So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that sha
- Gen 31:7 — And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- Gen 31:7 — And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- Gen 31:15 — Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
- Gen 31:38 — 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.
- Hos 12:12 — And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
- Zech 8:23 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We