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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 31, Verse 7

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And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
King James Version
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
American Standard Version
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
New English Translation
but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.
World English Bible
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.
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If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
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Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.
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And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle [were] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
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And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, [saying], Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I.
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And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle [are] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
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I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
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And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, [Is there] yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
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Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
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For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that [is] ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
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Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;