Genesis 31:41 Cross References - Coverdale

⁴¹ Thus haue I serued twentye yeare in thy house, fourtene yeares for thy doughters, & sixe for thy flocke, and ten tymes hast thou chaunged my rewarde:

¹⁸ and Iacob loued her well, and sayde: I will serue the seuen yeare, for Rachel thy yongest doughter. ¹⁹ Laban answered: It is better that I geue her the, then vnto another: tary thou with me. ²⁰ So Iacob serued seuen yeare for Rachel, and they semed vnto him but few dayes, he loued her so well. ²¹ And Iacob saide vnto Laban: geue me my wyfe, for the tyme is come that I shulde lye with her. ²² The Laban bad all the people of that place, and made a mariage. ²³ But at eue he toke his doughter Lea, and brought her in vnto him, and he laye wt her. ²⁴ And Laban gaue Zilpa his mayde vnto his doughter Lea to be hir mayde. ²⁵ But on the morow, beholde, it was Lea. And he sayde vnto Laban: Why hast thou done this vnto me? Haue not I serued ye for Rachel? Why hast thou then begyled me? ²⁶ Laban answered: It is not the maner in oure countre, to mary the yongest before the eldest. ²⁷ Holde out this weke, & I will geue the this also, for the seruyce yt thou shalt do me yet seuen yeares more. ²⁸ Iacob dyd so, & helde out yt weke. Then gaue he him Rachel his doughter to wyfe. ²⁹ And Laban gaue Bilha his mayden vnto Rachel his doughter to be hir mayden. ³⁰ So he laye with Rachel also, & loued Rachel more the Lea, and serued him yet seuen yeares more.

³³ so shal my righteousnes testifie with me to daye or tomorow, whan it cometh vnto my rewarde before the, so that, what so euer is not spotted and partye coloured amonge the kyddes, and blacke amoge the lambes, let that be theft with me. ³⁴ Then sayde Laban: Beholde, let it be so as thou hast sayde. ³⁵ And that same daye he sundered out the speckled and partye coloured goates, and all the spotted and partye coloured kyddes (where there was eny whyte vpon them) and all that was black amonge the lambes, and put them vnder the hande of his children, ³⁶ and made rowme of thre dayes iourney wyde betwixte him and Iacob. So Iacob kepte the residue of Labans flocke. ³⁷ But Iacob toke staues of grene wyllies, hasell and of chestnottrees, and pylled whyte strekes in them, ³⁸ and layed the staues that he had pylled, in the drynkinge troughes before the flocke, which came there to drynke, that they shulde conceaue, whan they came to drynke. ³⁹ So the flockes conceaued ouer ye staues, and brought forth speckelde, spotted and partye coloured. ⁴⁰ Then Iacob parted ye lambes, and put them to the flocke vnto the spotted: and all that was blacke in Labans flocke, that put he vnto the spotted. And he made him a flocke of his owne, which he put not vnto Labans flocke.

⁷ And he hath disceaued me, and chaunged my wages now ten tymes. But God hath not suffred him, to do me harme.

³⁸ Twentye yeare haue I bene wt the: thy shepe & goates haue not bene vnfrutefull, the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten:

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace in me hath not bene vayne, but I haue laboured more then they all: howbeit not I but the grace of God which is wt me.

²⁶ I haue oft iourneyed: I haue bene oft in parels of waters, in parels amonge murthurers, in parels amonge the Iewes, in parels amonge the Heythen, in parels in cities, in parels in the wylderners, in parels vpon the See, in parels amonge false brethre,