KJV King James Version
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
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Genesis 31:7
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
WEB World English Bible
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
ASV American Standard Version
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.
Surrounding context — Genesis 31
4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
5 And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it [is] not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.
10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle [were] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַאֲבִיכֶן֙H1 · avfatherהֵ֣תֶלH2048 · ha.talto mockבִּ֔יH9030 · nimeוְהֶחֱלִ֥ףH2498 · cha.laphto passאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]מַשְׂכֻּרְתִּ֖יH4909 · mas.ko.retwageעֲשֶׂ֣רֶתH6235 · e.sertenמֹנִ֑יםH4489 · mo.nehtimeוְלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotנְתָנ֣וֹH5414 · na.tanto give: giveאֱלֹהִ֔יםH430 · e.lo.himGodלְהָרַ֖עH7489 · ra.abe evilעִמָּדִֽי׃H5978 · im.madwith me
Cross-references
Psalm 37:28For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.Nehemiah 4:12And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us [they will be upon you].Numbers 14:22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;Genesis 31:41Thus 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.Zechariah 8:23Thus 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 will go with you: for we have heard [that] God [is] with you.Genesis 31:29It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.Isaiah 54:17No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness [is] of me, saith the LORD.Isaiah 4:1And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.Job 1:10Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.Genesis 20:6And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.Job 19:3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me.Leviticus 26:26[And] when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.Psalm 105:14-15He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;Job 19:8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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