And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
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Gill's Exposition
If he said thus, the speckled shall be thy wages,.... Sometimes Laban would say to Jacob, only the speckled lambs which the ewes shall bring forth shall be thine hire, and not the spotted; or the…
- Jacob’s Flight from Haran 19. תרפים terāpı̂ym, Teraphim. This word occurs fifteen times in the Old Testament. It appears three times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the Pentateuch. It is…
Adam Clarke
Changed my wages ten times - There is a strange diversity among the ancient versions, and ancient and modern interpreters, on the meaning of these words. The Hebrew is עשרת מנים asereth monim, which…
Jacob is here taking up a resolution immediately to quit his uncle's service, to take what he had and go back to Canaan. This resolution he took up upon a just provocation, by divine direction, and…
Cambridge Bible
changed my wages The account given in the following passage differs from that in the preceding chapter, Gen 30:25-31. There Jacob specified the conditions, to which Laban acceded; and then Jacob…
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