World English Bible
Genesis 31:7
“Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.”
Verse in context — Genesis 31
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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.
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You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
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Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.
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If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.
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Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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