Genesis 31:41 Cross References - CAB

⁴¹ These twenty years have I been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years among your sheep, and you falsely changed my wages for ten lambs.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel. ¹⁹ And Laban said to him, It is better that I should give her to you, than that I should give her to another man; dwell with me. ²⁰ And Jacob served for Rachel seven years, and they seemed only a few days, because of the love that he had for her. ²¹ And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her. ²² And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a marriage feast. ²³ And so it was, that he took his daughter Leah, and brought her in to Jacob, and Jacob went in to her. ²⁴ And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah, as a maid for her. ²⁵ So it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah; and Jacob said to Laban, What is this that you have done to me? Did I not serve you for Rachel? And why have you deceived me? ²⁶ And Laban answered, It is not done thus in our country, to give the younger before the elder. ²⁷ Fulfill then her week, and I will give her to you also in return for your service, which you serve with me, yet seven other years. ²⁸ And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week; and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as wife also. ²⁹ And Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter as a maid to her. ³⁰ And he went in to Rachel; and he loved Rachel more than Leah; and he served him seven other years.

³³ And my righteousness shall answer for me in the morning, for it is my reward before you: whatever shall not be spotted and speckled among the goats, and gray among the rams, shall be considered stolen if it is with me. ³⁴ And Laban said to him, Let it be according to your word. ³⁵ And he separated in that day the spotted and speckled male goats, and all the spotted and speckled female goats, and all those that were gray among the rams, and everyone that was white among them, and he gave them into the hand of his sons. ³⁶ And he set a distance of a three days' journey between them and Jacob. And Jacob tended the cattle of Laban that were left behind. ³⁷ And Jacob took to himself rods of green poplar, and walnut and plane tree; and Jacob peeled white strips in them; and as he drew off the green, the white strips which he had made appeared alternate on the rods. ³⁸ And he laid the rods which he had peeled in the hollows of the watering troughs, so that whenever the cattle should come to drink, they might conceive at the rods. ³⁹ So the cattle conceived before the rods, and the cattle brought forth young speckled, streaked and spotted with ash-colored spots. ⁴⁰ And Jacob separated the lambs, and set before the sheep a speckled ram, and every streaked one among the lambs, and he separated flocks for himself alone, and did not mingle them with Laban's sheep.

⁷ But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God did not give him the power to hurt me.

³⁸ These twenty years have I been with you; your sheep, and your female goats have not failed in bearing; and I have not eaten the rams of your cattle.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

²⁶ In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from my own race, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brothers;