Genesis 31:7

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Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not let him harm me.

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  • Num 14:22 : 22 none of those who saw my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times,
  • Neh 4:12 : 12 Every builder had his sword strapped to his side as he worked, and the one who sounded the trumpet stood beside me.
  • Ps 37:28 : 28 For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His faithful ones. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
  • Gen 31:29 : 29 I have the power to harm you, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
  • Gen 31:41 : 41 It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.
  • Zech 8:23 : 23 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In those days, ten men from every language and nation will take hold of the robe of a Jewish man and say, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’
  • Gen 20:6 : 6 Then God said to him in the dream, 'Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, so I also kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.'
  • Lev 26:26 : 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.
  • Ps 105:14-15 : 14 He allowed no one to oppress them; He rebuked kings on their account. 15 'Do not touch My anointed ones, and do not harm My prophets.'
  • Isa 4:1 : 1 In that day, seven women will take hold of one man and say, "We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothing; just let us be called by your name to take away our disgrace."
  • Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon formed against you will succeed, and you will refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me, declares the Lord.
  • Job 1:10 : 10 'Haven't you placed a hedge around him and his household and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands so that his possessions have increased in the land.'
  • Job 19:3 : 3 You have insulted me ten times now; you are not even ashamed that you mistreat me.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

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    38I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten rams from your flocks.

    39I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night.

    40This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime, and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

    41It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

    42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.

  • Gen 31:8-10
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    8If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then the flock bore speckled young. And if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then the flock bore streaked young.

    9So God has taken away your father’s livestock and given it to me.

    10During the mating season of the flock, I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

  • Gen 31:5-6
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    5He said to them, 'I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not as it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.'

    6You know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.

  • Gen 31:27-30
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    27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? You didn’t even let me know so I could send you away with joy and singing, to the music of tambourines and harps.

    28You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing.

    29I have the power to harm you, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

    30Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?

  • Gen 30:27-32
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    27But Laban said to him, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me because of you.'

    28He continued, 'Name your wages, and I will pay them.'

    29Jacob said to him, 'You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.'

    30For you had little before I came, but now it has increased greatly. The LORD has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when can I provide for my own household?

    31Laban asked, 'What shall I give you?' Jacob replied, 'You shall give me nothing. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to tend and watch over your flock.'

    32Let me pass through all your flocks today and remove every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will become my wages.

  • Gen 27:12
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    12'What if my father touches me? Then I will appear to him as a deceiver and bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.'

  • Gen 44:32
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    32For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'

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    15Laban said to Jacob, 'Because you are my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?'

  • Gen 44:7
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    7But they replied to him, "Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

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    12He said, 'Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

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    9He thought, 'If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp that is left will escape.'

  • Gen 20:13
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    13And when God caused me to wander from my father’s household, I said to her, “This is the kindness you can show to me: Everywhere we go, say about me, ‘He is my brother.’”

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    25In the morning, Jacob saw it was Leah. So he said to Laban, 'What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve you for Rachel? Why have you deceived me?'

  • Gen 31:15-16
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    15Does he not regard us as foreigners? For he has sold us and has even spent what was paid for us.

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    34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come upon my father.

  • Gen 42:28-29
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    28He said to his brothers, 'My money has been returned! Look, it is here in my sack.' Their hearts sank, and trembling, they turned to one another, saying, 'What is this that God has done to us?'

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    35But Isaac said, 'Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.'

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    6Then God said to him in the dream, 'Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, so I also kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.'

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    1Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, 'Jacob has taken all that belonged to our father and has acquired all this wealth from what was our father’s.'

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    36Their father Jacob said to them, 'You have deprived me of my children! Joseph is gone; Simeon is gone; and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!'

  • Gen 37:10-11
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    10When he told the dream to his father and brothers, his father rebuked him, asking, "What kind of dream is this that you have had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to the ground before you?"

    11His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

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    9Because they were jealous of Joseph, the patriarchs sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him.

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    34Laban said, 'Very well, let it be as you have said.'

  • Gen 21:23
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    27He said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his steadfast love and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives."