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Genesis 31:5-7
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Genesis 31:5-7
New English Translation
5 There he said to them, “I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed,[a] but the God of my father has been with me. 6 You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could,[b] 7 but your father has humiliated[c] me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.
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- Genesis 31:5 tn Heb “I see the face of your father, that he is not toward me as formerly.”
- Genesis 31:6 tn Heb “with all my strength.”
- Genesis 31:7 tn This rare verb means “to make a fool of” someone. It involves deceiving someone so that their public reputation suffers (see Exod 8:25).
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