Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Hasn't he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for 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.
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 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 Rachel and Leah replied to him, "Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father's house? 15 Hasn't he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us! 16 Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you."
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 29:15-20
Then Laban said to Jacob, "Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be."
Genesis 30:26
Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you. Then I'll depart, because you know how hard I've worked for you."
Genesis 29:27-30
Complete my older daughter's bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work."
Genesis 31:41
This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you -- fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!
Exodus 21:7-11
"If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.
Nehemiah 5:8
I said to them, "To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!" They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.