Thematic Bible: In deceiving jacob in wages


Thematic Bible



But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage. Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitMastersServants, Working Conditions OfServants, GoodMasters Duties Towards ServantsEmployers, Bad ExamplesTen TimesChangeGod Forbiddingcheaters

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. Verse ConceptsReckoningReckoned As Foreigners

These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain