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Genesis 31:40

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

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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 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household-stuff? set [it] here before my brethren, and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

38 These twenty years [have] I [been] with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

39 That which was torn by beasts, I brought not to thee; I bore the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, [whether] stolen by day, or stolen by night.

40 [Thus] I was; in the day the drouth consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.

41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had been with me, surely thou hadst now sent me away empty. God hath seen my affliction, and the labor of my hands, and rebuked [thee] yesternight.

43 And Laban answered, and said to Jacob, [These] daughters [are] my daughters, and [these] children [are] my children, and [these] cattle [are] my cattle, and all that thou seest [is] mine; and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children which they have borne?

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