26 Give me my wives and my children that I have worked for, and let me go.(A) You know how hard I have worked for you.”

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26 Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you,(A) and I will be on my way. You know how much work I’ve done for you.”

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26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

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

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41 It was like this for the twenty years(A) I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters(B) and six years for your flocks,(C) and you changed my wages(D) ten times.(E)

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41 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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Further Indictment of Jacob’s Heirs

12 Jacob fled to the territory of Aram.(A)
Israel worked to earn a wife;(B)
he tended flocks for a wife.(C)

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12 Jacob fled to the country of Aram[a];(A)
    Israel served to get a wife,
    and to pay for her he tended sheep.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 12:12 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia

12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

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