^31:41This was my lot⁸⁸ for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave⁸⁹ for you—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

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Footnotes

88 Heb “this to me.”
89 Heb “served you,” but in this accusatory context the meaning is more “worked like a slave.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For twenty years in your household I served you—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!

NLTNew Living Translation

Yes, for twenty years I slaved in your house! I worked for fourteen years earning your two daughters, and then six more years for your flock. And you changed my wages ten times!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

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