38|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.


In Context

35 She said to her father, |Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for I'm having my period.| He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.

36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, |What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

38 |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.

39 That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 31:38 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:38This twenty years [have] I [been] with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

31:38"I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

31:38Have I therefore been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

31:38These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:38These twenty years have I been with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

31:38This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:38These twenty years have I been with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

31:38These twenty years I am with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not miscarried, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:38This twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten.