Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Voilà vingt ans que j'ai passés dans ta maison; je t'ai servi quatorze ans pour tes deux filles, et six ans pour ton troupeau, et tu as changé dix fois mon salaire.
KJV
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 100 (Migne)
credendum est. Inter. 237. Quomodo decem vicibus dicit Jacob socero suo, mutasse eum mercedem suam (Gen. XXXI, 41) ?--- Resp. Hic est sensus, quod per singulos fetus semper Laban conditionem mutaverit. Si videbat varium nasci pecus [post fetum] dicebat: Nolo [ F., [Col. 0551C]…
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