But your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages [a]ten times: but God suffered him not to hurt me.

If he thus said, The spotted shall be thy wages, then all the sheep bare spotted: and if he said thus, the parti-colored shall be thy reward, then bare all the sheep parti-colored.

Thus hath [b]God taken away your father’s [c]substance, and given it me.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 31:7 Or, many times.
  2. Genesis 31:9 This declareth that the thing, which Jacob did before, was by God’s commandment, and not through deceit.
  3. Genesis 31:9 Or, cattle.

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