He said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
- BSB Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.
- NKJV So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me.
- NASB But Jacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you and how your livestock have fared with me.
- NLT Jacob replied, “You know how hard I’ve worked for you, and how your flocks and herds have grown under my care.
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- Gen 31:6You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
- Gen 31:38–40“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
- 1 Pet 2:18Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
- 1 Pet 2:15For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
- Gen 30:5Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
- Eph 6:5–8Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
- Matt 24:45“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
- Col 3:22–25Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
- Titus 2:9–10Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
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