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Genesis 31:40

This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

Genesis 31:40 · Bible in Basic English

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Genesis 31:40 in other translations

KJV King James Version

Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

WEB World English Bible

This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

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In context

37 Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.

38 These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.

39 Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.

40 This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

41 These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

43 Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?

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