Genesis 31:41 Cross References - VIN

⁴¹ Thus have I been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks: and you have changed my wages ten times.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel. ¹⁹ Laban answered: "It is better that I give her to you than to anyone else. Stay here with me." ²⁰ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they appeared to him as a few days, because he loved her. ²¹ Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for the days are completed, that I may go in unto her. ²² And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast. ²³ And in the evening he took his daughter Leia and brought her to Jacob; and Jacob went in unto her. ²⁴ And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah, as a maid for her. ²⁵ In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?” ²⁶ Laban answered: "It is not our custom to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. ²⁷ Fulfil the week [with] this one: then we will give thee the other one also, for the service that thou shalt serve me yet seven other years. ²⁸ Jacob did that. He finished the week with Leah. Then Laban gave his daughter Rachel to him as his wife. ²⁹ Laban gave his slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave. ³⁰ Jacob slept with Rachel too. He loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

³³ "My honesty will speak for itself whenever you come to check on my wages. Any goat I have that is not speckled or spotted or any lamb that is not black will be considered stolen." ³⁴ And Laban said, Let it be as you say. ³⁵ But that day he removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, all that had white on it, and every dark-colored ram, and put them in the charge of his sons. ³⁶ And he put three days` journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban`s flock. ³⁷ Then Jacob took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled white strips on them, exposing the white which was on the branches. ³⁸ He placed these branches in front of the flocks at their drinking troughs. He put them there, because the animals mated when they came to drink. ³⁹ So when the goats bred in front of the branches, they produced young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted. ⁴⁰ And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he made himself separate flocks, and did not put them with Laban`s flock.

⁷ and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me.

³⁸ "I have been with you now for twenty years. Your sheep and your goats have not failed to reproduce. I have not even eaten any rams from your flocks.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

²⁶ I have been on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, in danger from robbers, in danger from my own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in the city, in danger in the wilderness, in danger at sea, and in danger from false brethren;