King James Version (KJV)
Genesis 31:7
“And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.”
Verse in context — Genesis 31
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.
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