Génesis 31:7

7 sin embargo, me ha estafado, cambiando mi salario diez veces. Pero Dios no le ha permitido que me haga ningún daño.

Génesis 31:7 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 31:7

And your father hath deceived me
In the bargain he had made with him about his wages for keeping his cattle the six years past, after the fourteen years' servitude were ended: and changed my wages ten times;
that is, either very often, many times, as the number ten is sometimes. Used for many, see ( Leviticus 26:26 ) ; or precisely ten times, since he repeats it afterwards in the same form to Laban's face, ( Genesis 31:41 ) ; he had now served him six years upon a new bargain; that he should have all that were of such and such different colours, which were produced out of his flock of white sheep. Laban was at first highly pleased with it, as judging it would be a very good one to him, as he might reasonably think indeed: and it is highly probable he did not attempt any alteration the first year, but observing Jacob's cattle of the speckled sort prodigiously increasing, he did not choose to abide by the any longer. Now it must be observed, that the sheep in Mesopotamia, as in Italy ^F24, brought forth the young twice a year; so that every yeaning time, which was ten times in five years, Laban made an alteration in Jacob's wages; one time he would let him have only the speckled, and not the ringstraked; another time the ringstraked, and not the speckled; and so changed every time, according as he observed the prevailing colour was, as may be concluded from ( Genesis 31:8 ) : but God suffered him not to hurt me;
to hinder his prosperity, or having justice done him for his service; for whatsoever colour Laban chose for Jacob to have the next season of yeaning, there was always the greatest number of them, or all of them were of that colour, whether speckled or ringstraked

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 "Bis gravidae pecudes.----", Virgil. Georgic. l. 2.

Génesis 31:7 In-Context

5 y les dijo:
—Noto un cambio en la actitud de su padre hacia mí, pero el Dios de mi padre ha estado conmigo.

6 Ustedes saben con cuánto esfuerzo trabajé para su padre;

7 sin embargo, me ha estafado, cambiando mi salario diez veces. Pero Dios no le ha permitido que me haga ningún daño.

8 Pues, si él decía: “Los animales manchados serán tu salario”, todo el rebaño comenzaba a dar crías manchadas. Y cuando él cambiaba de opinión y decía: “Los animales rayados serán tu salario”, entonces todo el rebaño producía crías rayadas.

9 De esa manera, Dios ha tomado los animales de su padre y me los ha entregado a mí.