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Genesis 31:7 KJV
Genesis · chapter 31 · verse 7
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.Genesis 31:7 · King James Version
Genesis 31:7 in context
5And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
6And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
8If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- deceivedhâthalto derideH2048 →
- changedchâlaphproperly, to slide byH2498 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- wagesmaskôrethwages or a rewardH4909 →
- timesmônehproperly, something weighed outH4489 →
- hurtrâʻaʻproperly, to spoilH7489 →
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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 with the advice and consent of his wives. I. Upon a just provocation;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16