Holy Scripture
Genesis 31:7
A church father on this verse
“(Chapter XXXI, verses 7 and 8) And your father deceived me and changed my wages ten times, and God did not allow him to harm me. If he said, 'Your wages will be the spotted flock,' then every flock was born spotted. And if he said, 'Your wages will be the solid-colored flock,' then every flock was born solid-colored.…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God gave him not power to hurt me.
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5And he said to them, I see the face of your father, that it is not toward me as before, but the God of my father was with me.
6And ye too know that with all my might I have served your father.
— Genesis 31:7 —
8If he should say thus, The speckled shall be thy reward, then all the cattle would bear speckled; and if he should say, The white shall be thy reward, then would all the cattle bear white.
9So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me.