Genesis 31:36-42

36 Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. “What is my crime?” he asked Laban. “How have I wronged you that you hunt me down?
37 Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household? Put it here in front of your relatives and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.
38 “I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.
39 I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night.
40 This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
41 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.
42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.”

Cross References 21

  • 1. 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 20:32
  • 2. 1 Samuel 23:23; 1 Samuel 24:11
  • 3. ver 33
  • 4. ver 23
  • 5. Deuteronomy 1:16; Deuteronomy 16:18
  • 6. S Genesis 27:44
  • 7. S Genesis 30:27
  • 8. Genesis 30:33
  • 9. Exodus 22:13
  • 10. Psalms 132:4; 2 Corinthians 11:27
  • 11. S Genesis 27:44
  • 12. Genesis 29:30
  • 13. S Genesis 30:32
  • 14. S Genesis 29:15
  • 15. S ver 7
  • 16. S ver 5; S Exodus 3:15; 1 Chronicles 12:17
  • 17. S Genesis 24:12
  • 18. ver 53; Genesis 46:1; Isaiah 8:13
  • 19. S Genesis 21:22; Psalms 124:1-2
  • 20. S Genesis 3:17; Genesis 29:32
  • 21. S Genesis 24:50
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