Genesis 31:41

KJV1611 – Modern English

Thus have I been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your cattle: and you have changed my wages ten times.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זֶה־לִּי עֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה בְּבֵיתֶךָ עֲבַדְתִּיךָ אַרְבַּע־עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה בִּשְׁתֵּי בְנֹתֶיךָ וְשֵׁשׁ שָׁנִים בְּצֹאנֶךָ וַתַּחֲלֵף אֶת־מַשְׂכֻּרְתִּי עֲשֶׂרֶת מֹנִים

Transliteration

This-to me ʿeśrîm šānāh in bêtekā ʿabadtîkā ʾarbaʿ-ʿeśrēh šānāh for šetê benōteykā and šēš šānîm for ṣōʾnekā and wa-taḥalēp ʾet-maśkurtî ʿaśeret mōnîm

Grammar Details

• *ʿeśrîm*: numeral - twenty
• *šānāh*: noun, feminine singular - year
• *bêtekā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your house
• *ʿabadtîkā*: qal perfect 1st person singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - I served you
• *ʾarbaʿ*-*ʿeśrēh*: numeral - fourteen
• *šetê*: numeral feminine construct - two of
• *benōteykā*: noun, feminine plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your daughters
• *šēš*: numeral - six
• *šānîm*: noun, feminine plural - years
• *ṣōʾnekā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your flock
• *wa-taḥalēp*: waw consecutive with hiphil imperfect 2nd masculine singular - and you changed
• *maśkurtî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my wages
• *ʿaśeret*: numeral - ten
• *mōnîm*: noun, masculine plural - times

Word Meanings

• *ʿabadtîkā*: served you/worked for you/labored for you
• *wa-taḥalēp*: changed/altered/substituted
• *maśkurtî*: my wages/my payment/my compensation
• *mōnîm*: times/instances/occurrences

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  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.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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 chand my was ten times.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  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.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Thus haue I bene.xx. yere in thi house and serued the.xiiij. yeres forthy.ij. doughters and vi. yere for thi shepe and thou hast changed my rewarde.x. tymes.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thus haue I serued twentye yeare in thy house, fourtene yeares for thy doughters, & sixe for thy flocke, and ten tymes hast thou chaunged my rewarde:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Thus haue I bene twentie yeere in thine house, and serued thee fourteene yeeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yeeres for thy sheepe, and thou hast changed my wages tenne times.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thus haue I ben twentie yere in thy house, and serued thee fourteene yeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yere for thy sheepe, and thou hast chaunged my rewarde ten tymes.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  These twenty years have I been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `This `is' to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times;

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• 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.

• World English Bible (2000)

  These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you– fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

Referenced Verses

• Gen 31:7 : 7 And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to harm me.
• Gen 31:38 : 38 These twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your she goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten.
• 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• 2 Cor 11:26 : 26 In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
• Gen 29:18-30 : 18 And Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter. 19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man; stay with me. 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days, because of the love he had for her. 21 And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her. 22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast. 23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in to her. 24 And Laban gave his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid as a handmaid. 25 And it came to pass that in the morning, behold, it was Leah; and he said to Laban, What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me? 26 And Laban said, It must not be done so in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. 27 Fulfill her week, and we will give you the other one also for the service which you shall serve with me for seven more years. 28 And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week, and he gave him Rachel his daughter as his wife also. 29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his maid as her maid. 30 And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him another seven years.
• Gen 30:33-40 : 33 "So my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come, when it comes for my wages before your face. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and brown among the sheep shall be counted stolen with me." 34 Laban said, "Behold, I would it might be according to your word." 35 He removed that day the he-goats that were ringstraked and spotted, all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hands of his sons. 36 He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. 37 Jacob took rods of green poplar, hazel, and chestnut tree, peeled white stripes in them, and made the white appear in the rods. 38 He set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. 39 The flocks conceived before the rods and brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted cattle. 40 Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks towards the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban. He put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban's cattle.