Genesis 31:42 meaning and explanation
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
Genesis 31:42, Berean Standard Bible
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Jacob is speaking to Laban in Gilead, after twenty years of service and a tense pursuit. He sums up his case before their gathered relatives: without the God of his father, Laban would have dismissed him with nothing.
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