Gen 31:41
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
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And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that {is} not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. {in time...: Heb. to morrow}
{In} journeyings often, {in} perils of waters, {in} perils of robbers, {in} perils by {mine own} countrymen, {in} perils by the heathen, {in} perils in the city, {in} perils in the wilderness, {in} perils in the sea, {in} perils among false brethren;
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
This twenty years {have} I {been} with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which {was bestowed} upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept {sheep}.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days {it shall come to pass}, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard {that} God {is} with you.
Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
And Jacob said unto Laban, Give {me} my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us {they will be upon you}. {From all...: or, That from all places ye must return to us}
So I bought her to me for fifteen {pieces} of silver, and {for} an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: {half...: Heb. lethech}