Holy Scripture

Genesis 31:41

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 41.) And you changed my reward to ten lambs. The same mistake as above: The word 'numerus' should be read instead of 'agnis'.”
Jerome, 5th c. — Hebrew Questions on Genesis

Source: Septuagint

Original

41These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years among thy sheep, and thou didst falsely rate my wages for ten lambs.

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In context

39That which was taken of beasts I brought not to thee; I made good of myself the thefts of the day, and the thefts of the night.

40I was parched with heat by day, and chilled with frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.

— Genesis 31:41 —

42Unless I had the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

43And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the cattle are my cattle, and all things which thou seest are mine, and the property of my daughters; what shall I do to them today, or their children which they bore?

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