Catholic Public Domain Version
"Even so, your father has circumvented me, and he has changed my wages ten times. And yet God has not permitted him to harm me. "
— Genesis 31:7, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.”
“And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. ”
“Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.”
“but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.”
“Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.”
“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.”
“And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.”
He sent and called for Rachel and Leah, in the field where he pastured the flocks,
and he said to them: “I see that your father’s face is not the same toward me as it was yesterday and the day before. But the God of my father has been with me.
And you know that I have served your father with all my strength.
Even so, your father has circumvented me, and he has changed my wages ten times. And yet God has not permitted him to harm me.
Whenever he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ all the sheep gave birth to speckled newborns. Yet truly, when he said the contrary, ‘You will take whatever is white for your wages,’ all the flocks gave birth to white ones.
And it is God who has taken your father’s substance and given it to me.
For after the time had arrived for the ewes to conceive, I lifted up my eyes, and I saw in my sleep that the males climbing on the females were of variegated, and spotted, and diverse colors.