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What does Genesis 31:43 mean?
"Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?"
— Genesis 31:43 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
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.
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.”
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
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