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Genesis 31:7
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
Genesis 31:7 · World English Bible
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Genesis 31:7 in other translations
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.
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In context
4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
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.
10 During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
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