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41 For twenty years in your household I served you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks(A) – and you have changed my wages ten times! 42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work,[a] and he issued his verdict last night.’

43 Then Laban answered Jacob, ‘The daughters are my daughters; the children, my children; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?

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  1. 31:42 Lit and the work of my hands