Genesis 31:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to harm me.

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  • Num 14:22 : 22 Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
  • Neh 4:12 : 12 And when the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, From whatever place you turn, they will be upon us.
  • Ps 37:28 : 28 For the LORD loves justice, and does not forsake his saints; they are preserved forever, but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.
  • Gen 31:29 : 29 It is in my power to do you harm: but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Beware that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
  • Gen 31:41 : 41 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.
  • Zech 8:23 : 23 Thus says the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the garment of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
  • Gen 20:6 : 6 And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also kept you from sinning against me: therefore I did not let you touch her.
  • Lev 26:26 : 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
  • Ps 105:14-15 : 14 He allowed no man to do them wrong: yes, he reproved kings for their sakes; 15 Saying, Do not touch my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
  • Isa 4:1 : 1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes; only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.
  • Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.
  • Job 1:10 : 10 Have you not made a hedge around him, around his house, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
  • Job 19:3 : 3 These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

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  • Gen 31:38-42
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    82%

    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.

    39 That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it; from my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or by night.

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

    41 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.

    42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.

  • Gen 31:8-10
    3 verses
    81%

    8 If he said, The speckled shall be your wages; then all the cattle bore speckled: and if he said, The streaked shall be your pay; then all the cattle bore streaked.

    9 So God has taken away the cattle of your father and given them to me.

    10 And it happened, at the time when the cattle conceived, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

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

    6 And you know that with all my strength I have served your father.

  • Gen 31:27-30
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    76%

    27 Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with joy, and with songs, with tambourine, and with harp?

    28 And have not allowed me to kiss my sons and my daughters? You have now done foolishly in so doing.

    29 It is in my power to do you harm: but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Beware that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

    30 And now, though you would certainly be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, yet why have you stolen my gods?

  • Gen 30:27-32
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    75%

    27 Laban said to him, "I pray you, if I have found favor in your eyes, stay, for I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."

    28 He said, "Set your wages, and I will give it."

    29 He said to him, "You know how I have served you and how your cattle have been with me."

    30 "For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased to a multitude, and the LORD has blessed you since my coming. Now, when shall I provide for my own house also?"

    31 He said, "What shall I give you?" And Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything; if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flock."

    32 "I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and of such shall be my wages."

  • Gen 27:12
    71%

    12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will seem to him as a deceiver; and I will bring a curse upon myself, and not a blessing.

  • Gen 44:32
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    32 For your servant became a guarantee for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.

  • Gen 29:15
    70%

    15 And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?

  • Gen 44:7
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    7 And they said to him, Why does my lord say these words? God forbid that your servants should do such a thing as this:

  • Gen 31:12
    70%

    12 And he said, Lift up now your eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are streaked, speckled, and spotted: for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

  • Gen 32:9
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    9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will deal well with you:

  • Gen 20:13
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    13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is your kindness which you shall show unto me; at every place where we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

  • Gen 29:25
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    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?

  • Gen 31:15-16
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    70%

    15 Are we not regarded by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and has also utterly consumed our money.

    16 For all the riches which God has taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatever God has said to you, do.

  • Gen 44:34
    69%

    34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad is not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come upon my father.

  • Gen 42:28-29
    2 verses
    69%

    28 And he said to his brothers, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their hearts failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God has done to us?

    29 And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them; saying,

  • Gen 27:35-36
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    69%

    35 And he said, Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.

    36 And he said, Is he not rightly named Jacob? for he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?

  • Gen 20:6
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    6 And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also kept you from sinning against me: therefore I did not let you touch her.

  • Gen 31:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's; and from that which was our father's, he has gained all this wealth.

    2 And Jacob noticed the expression of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as before.

  • Gen 42:36
    69%

    36 And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

  • Gen 37:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10 And he told it to his father, and to his brothers: and his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth?

    11 And his brothers envied him; but his father observed the saying.

  • Acts 7:9
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    9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him,

  • Gen 44:17
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    17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, go up in peace to your father.

  • Gen 30:34
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    34 Laban said, "Behold, I would it might be according to your word."

  • Gen 21:23
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    23 Now therefore swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have sojourned.

  • Gen 24:27
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    27 And he said, "Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His mercy and His truth toward my master. As for me, being on the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren."