Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
he counteth us even as strangers, for he hath sold us, and hath even eaten up the price of us.
New American Standard Bible
Are we not reckoned by him as foreigners? For
King James Version
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
Holman Bible
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? For he has sold us
International Standard Version
He's treating us like foreigners. He sold us and spent all of the money that rightfully belonged to us.
A Conservative Version
Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
American Standard Version
Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.
Amplified
Are we not counted by him as foreigners? For he sold us [to you in marriage], and has also entirely used up our purchase price.
Bible in Basic English
Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.
Darby Translation
Are we not reckoned of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has even constantly devoured our money.
Julia Smith Translation
Were we not reckoned strangers by him? for he sold us, and also eating, he ate up our silver.
King James 2000
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has quite devoured also our money.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Are we not regarded [as] foreigners by him, because he has sold us and completely consumed our money?
Modern King James verseion
Are we not counted strangers by him? For he has sold us, and has also entirely devoured our silver.
NET Bible
Hasn't he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!
New Heart English Bible
Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
The Emphasized Bible
Are we not accounted, aliens, to him seeing that having sold us, he hath then gone on devouring, our silver?
Webster
Are we not counted by him strangers; for he hath sold us, and hath quite consumed also our money.
World English Bible
Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
Youngs Literal Translation
have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money;
Themes
Covetousness » Instances of » Laban » In deceiving jacob in wages
Rachel » Steals the household images (teraphim, legal deed) of her father
Interlinear
Chashab
Nokriy
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 31:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob Flees From Laban
14 Then answered Rachel and Lea and said unto him, "We have no part nor inheritance in our father's house: 15 he counteth us even as strangers, for he hath sold us, and hath even eaten up the price of us. 16 Moreover, all the riches which God hath taken from our father: that is ours and our children's. Now therefore whatsoever God hath said unto thee, that do."
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 29:15-20
And afterward Laban said unto Jacob, "Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? Tell me, what shall thy wages be?"
Genesis 30:26
give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what service I have done thee."
Genesis 29:27-30
Pass out this week, and then shall this also be given thee for the service which thou shalt serve me yet seven years more.
Genesis 31:41
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my reward ten times.
Exodus 21:7-11
"If a man sell his daughter to be a servant: she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Nehemiah 5:8
and said unto them, "We, after our ability, have bought our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the Heathen. And will ye sell your brethren, whom we have bought unto us?" Then held they their peace, and could find nothing to answer.