Verse 7
Genesis 31:7
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
7
Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changes my wages ten times: and yet God (Elohim) hath not suffered him to hurt me.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/אֲבִי/כֶן֙ הֵ֣תֶל בִּ֔/י וְ/הֶחֱלִ֥ף אֶת מַשְׂכֻּרְתִּ֖/י עֲשֶׂ֣רֶת מֹנִ֑ים וְ/לֹֽא נְתָנ֣/וֹ אֱלֹהִ֔ים לְ/הָרַ֖ע עִמָּדִֽ/י
English Translation
And my father has deceived me and has changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to harm me.
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Chapter 31 Context
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But after that he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was o...
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And perceiving also that Laban's countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day,
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Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I wi...
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He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,
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And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day:...
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And you know that I have served your father to the utmost of my power.
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Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changes my wages ten times: and yet God (Elohim)...
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If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but w...
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And God (Elohim) hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.
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10
For after that time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep that the m...
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And the angel of God (Elohim) said to me in my sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am.
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12
And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers co...
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I am the God (Elohim) of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now theref...
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And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we anything left among the goods and inheritance of our father's h...
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Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?
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But God (Elohim) hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wher...
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Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.
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And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went for...
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19
At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.
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And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he was flying away.
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And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going...
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It was told Laban on the third day that Jacob fled.
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And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount o...
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And he saw in a dream God (Elohim) saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against...
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Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he with his brethren had overtaken him, he...
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And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters, as...
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Why wouldst thou run away privately and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way w...
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Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters: thou hast done foolishly: and now, indeed,
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It is in my power to return thee evil: but the God (Elohim) of your father said to me yesterday: Tak...
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Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why ha...
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31
Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear lest thou wouldst take away thy dau...
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But whereas thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain...
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33
So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, and found them not. And...
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She in haste hid the idols under the camel's furniture, and sat upon them: and when he had searched...
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35
She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to...
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And jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offense on my...
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And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it...
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38
Have I therefore been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy fl...
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Neither did I show thee that which the beast had torn, I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lo...
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40
Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.
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41
And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six...
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42
Unless the God (Elohim) of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had stood by me, peradventure no...
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43
Laban answered him: The daughters are mine and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that tho...
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44
Come therefore, let us enter into a league: that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.
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45
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title:
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And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they gathering stones together, made a heap, a...
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And Laban called it The witness heap: and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to...
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And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name th...
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The Lord behold and judge between us when we shall be gone one from the other.
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If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our spe...
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51
And he said again to Jacob: Behold, this heap, and the stone which I have set up between me and thee...
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Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass...
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53
The God (Elohim) of Abraham, and the God (Elohim) of Nachor, the God (Elohim) of their father, judge...
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54
And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when t...
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But laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons, and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to...
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Verse Information
- Book
- Genesis
- Chapter
- Chapter 31 (55 verses)
- Version
- Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition