Verse 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.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Dette er de tjue årene jeg har vært i ditt hus: Jeg har tjent deg fjorten år for dine to døtre og seks år for din buskap, og du har endret min lønn ti ganger.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Slik har jeg vært tjue år i ditt hus; jeg tjente deg fjorten år for dine to døtre, og seks år for din buskap: og du har forandret min lønn ti ganger.

• Norsk King James

  Slik har jeg vært i tyve år i huset ditt; jeg har tjent deg i fjorten år for dine to døtre, og seks år for buskapen din; og du har endret min lønn ti ganger.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg har tjent deg fjorten år for dine to døtre og seks år for dine flokker, og du har endret min lønn ti ganger.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Disse tjue årene har jeg vært i ditt hus; jeg tjente deg fjorten år for dine to døtre og seks år for din buskap, og du har endret min lønn ti ganger.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Slik har jeg vært i tjue år i ditt hus; jeg tjente deg fjorten år for dine to døtre og seks år for din flokks buskap, og du har endret min lønn ti ganger.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  «Slik har jeg vært hos deg i tjue år: Jeg tjente deg i fjorten år for dine to døtre og i seks år for din boskap, og du endret min lønn ti ganger.»

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Slik har jeg vært i tjue år i ditt hus; jeg tjente deg fjorten år for dine to døtre og seks år for din flokks buskap, og du har endret min lønn ti ganger.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Dette er mine tjue år i ditt hus: Jeg tjente deg fjorten år for dine to døtre og seks år for din flokk, og du har endret min lønn ti ganger.

• 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.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Slik har jeg vært i husene dine i tjue år. Jeg tjente deg fjorten år for dine to døtre og seks år for din buskap, og du skiftet min lønn ti ganger.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Det er nu tyve Aar, jeg er i dit Huus, jeg haver tjent fjorten Aar for dine tvende Døttre, og sex Aar for dit Qvæg, og du haver forvendt min Løn ti Gange.

• 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.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Slik har jeg vært tjue år i ditt hus; jeg tjente deg fjorten år for dine to døtre og seks år for buskapen din: og du endret min lønn ti ganger.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  I tjue år har jeg vært i ditt hus. Jeg tjente deg fjorten år for dine to døtre, og seks år for din buskap, og du har endret min lønn ti ganger.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Slik har jeg vært i ditt hus i tjue år. Jeg har tjent deg i fjorten år for dine to døtre, og seks år for flokken din, og du har endret min lønn ti ganger.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Disse tjue årene har jeg vært i ditt hus; jeg tjente deg fjorten år for dine to døtre, og seks år for ditt kveg, og du har endret min lønn ti ganger.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  I tjue år har jeg vært i ditt hus; jeg har tjent deg i fjorten år for dine døtre og seks år for din buskap, og ti ganger har min lønn blitt endret.

• 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.

• 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.