ESV Reformation Study Bible – Gen 31:7
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Gen 31:7

31:7 ten times. The number ten signified completeness; Jacob here is perhaps deploring the magnitude of Laban’s dishonesty.

God did not permit him. In spite of his own schemes, Jacob recognized that the Lord had blessed him.