⁴¹ It was like this for the twenty years^(A) I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters^(B) and six years for your flocks,^(C) and you changed my wages^(D) ten times.^{(E) 42} If the God of my father,^(F) the God of Abraham^(G) and the Fear of Isaac,^(H) had not been with me,^(I) you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands,^(J) and last night he rebuked you.^(K)”

⁴³ Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks.^(L) All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?