Thematic Bible: In deceiving jacob in wages
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and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.
have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money;
This is to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times; unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now empty thou hadst sent me away; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen, and reproveth yesternight.'