Thematic Bible: In deceiving jacob in wages


Thematic Bible



Yet your father has cheated me [as often as possible] and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to hurt me. Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitMastersServants, Working Conditions OfServants, GoodMasters Duties Towards ServantsEmployers, Bad ExamplesTen TimesChangeGod Forbiddingcheaters

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. Verse ConceptsReckoningReckoned As Foreigners

I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks; and you have changed my wages ten times. And if the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Dread [lest he should fall] and Fear [lest he offend] of Isaac, had not been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and humiliation and the [wearying] labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.