Genesis 31:41

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Gen 31:7 : 7 But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.
  • Gen 31:38 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
  • 2 Cor 11:26 : 26 In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;
  • Gen 29:18-30 : 18 And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter. 19 And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me. 20 And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time. 21 Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are ended. 22 And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast. 23 And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her. 24 And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman. 25 And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me? 26 And Laban said, In our country we do not let the younger daughter be married before the older. 27 Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years. 28 And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for his wife. 29 And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman. 30 Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.
  • Gen 30:33-40 : 33 And so you will be able to put my honour to the test in time to come; if you see among my flocks any goats which are not marked or coloured, or any sheep which is not black, you may take me for a thief. 34 And Laban said, Let it be as you say. 35 So that day he took all the he-goats which were banded or coloured, and all the she-goats which were marked or coloured or had white marks, and all the black sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons; 36 And sent them three days' journey away: and Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flock. 37 Then Jacob took young branches of trees, cutting off the skin so that the white wood was seen in bands. 38 And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get water; and they became with young when they came to the water. 39 And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour. 40 These lambs Jacob kept separate; and he put his flock in a place by themselves and not with Laban's flock.

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  • Gen 31:5-9
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    5 And he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's feeling is no longer what it was to me; but the God of my father has been with me

    6 And you have seen how I have done all in my power for your father,

    7 But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.

    8 If he said, All those in the flock which have marks are to be yours, then all the flock gave birth to marked young; and if he said, All the banded ones are to be yours, then all the flock had banded young.

    9 So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

  • Gen 31:37-40
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    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.

  • Gen 30:26-31
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    26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have been your servant, and let me go: for you have knowledge of all the work I have done for you.

    27 And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.

    28 Say then what your payment is to be and I will give it.

    29 Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.

    30 For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

    31 And Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do not give me anything; but I will again take up the care of your flock if you will only do this for me:

  • Gen 31:42-43
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    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?

  • Gen 29:14-15
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    14 And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.

    15 Then Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother are you to be my servant for nothing? say now, what is your payment to be?

  • Gen 29:27
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    27 Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.

  • Gen 29:18
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    18 And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.

  • Gen 29:20-21
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    20 And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.

    21 Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are ended.

  • Gen 44:32-33
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    32 For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

    33 So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

  • Gen 24:35
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    35 The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.

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    5 And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.

  • Gen 31:30-31
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    30 And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?

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    28 You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.

  • Gen 29:25
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    25 And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me?

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    30 Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.

  • Gen 24:37
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    37 And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

  • Deut 15:18
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    18 Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

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    3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

  • Gen 31:14-15
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    14 Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

    15 Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.

  • Gen 32:15
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    15 Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.

  • Gen 20:13
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    13 And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.

  • Gen 31:26
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    26 And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?