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Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative, blue:Elohim.
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BrLXXὉ δὲ πατὴρ ὑμῶν παρεκρούσατό με, καὶ ἤλλαξε τὸν μισθόν μου τῶν δέκα ἀμνῶν· καὶ οὐκ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ ὁ Θεὸς κακοποιῆσαί με. (Ho de pataʸr humōn parekrousato me, kai aʸllaxe ton misthon mou tōn deka amnōn; kai ouk edōken autōi ho Theos kakopoiaʸsai me. )
BrTrBut your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God gave him not power to hurt me.
ULTbut your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me.
USTbut he has cheated me by changing what he pays me ten times. However, God has not permitted him to hurt me.
BSBAnd although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
OEBYour father, however, has deceived me and changed my wages ten times; but God has not allowed him to do me harm.
WEBBEYour father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
RVAnd your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
WbstrAnd your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times: but God suffered him not to hurt me.
KJB-1769And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. (And your father hath/has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. )
KJB-1611And your father hath deceiued mee, and changed my wages ten times: but God suffered him not to hurt me. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)
BshpsBut your father hath deceaued me, and chaunged my wages ten tymes: but God suffred hym not to hurt me. (But your father hath/has deceaued me, and chaunged my wages ten times: but God suffered him not to hurt me.)
GnvaBut your father hath deceiued me, and changed my wages tenne times: but God suffred him not to hurt me. (But your father hath/has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times: but God suffered him not to hurt me. )
CvdlAnd he hath disceaued me, and chaunged my wages now ten tymes. But God hath not suffred him, to do me harme. (And he hath/has deceived me, and chaunged my wages now ten times. But God hath/has not suffered him, to do me harme.)
Wyclbut and youre fadir disseyuyde me, and chaungide my meede ten sithis; and netheles God suffride not hym to anoye me. (but and your(pl) father disseyuyde me, and changed my meede ten sithis; and netheles God suffered not him to anoye me.)
LuthUnd er hat mich getäuschet und nun zehnmal meinen Lohn verändert; aber GOtt hat ihm nicht gestattet, daß er mir Schaden täte. (And he has me getäuschet and now zehnmal my Lohn verändert; but God has him not gestattet, that he to_me Schaden täte.)
ClVgSed et pater vester circumvenit me et mutavit mercedem meam decem vicibus: et tamen non dimisit eum Deus ut noceret mihi. (But and father vester circumvenit me and mutavit mercedem meam ten vicibus: and tamen not/no dimisit him God as noceret mihi. )
31:1-21 Jacob’s return journey precipitated a confrontation with Laban that set a permanent boundary between Israel (Jacob) and Aram (Laban). God kept his word to Jacob by prospering him in Paddan-aram and protecting him on his journey home.
Alternate translation: “and ten times he has changed what he said that he would pay me.”
וְלֹֽא נְתָנ֣וֹ אֱלֹהִ֔ים לְהָרַ֖ע עִמָּדִֽי
and=not allowed,him ʼElohīm to,harm with=me
In this context, harm especially refers to financial harm, but it can also include physical harm. Alternate translation: “However, God has not permitted him to harm me.” or “But God has kept him from hurting me.” or “But God has protected me so that he could not hurt me.”
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
