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Genesis 31:7 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Genesis 31:7

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5 and 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.

6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

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

8 If 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.

9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

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Genesis 31:1

"Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”"

Genesis 31:2

"Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before."

Genesis 31:3

"The LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”"

Genesis 31:4

"Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,"

Genesis 31:5

"and 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."

Genesis 31:6

"You know that I have served your father with all of my strength."

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