Genesis Chapter 31 verse 6 Holy Bible
And ye know that will all my power I have served your father.
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And you have seen how I have done all in my power for your father,
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And you know that with all my power I have served your father.
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And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
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And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
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You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
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and ye -- ye have known that with all my power I have served your father,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. The term Jacob here uses for power is derived from an unused onomatopoetic root, signifying to pant, and hence to exert one s strength. If, therefore, the assertion now made to his wives was not an unblushing falsehood, Jacob could not have been the monster of craft and deception depicted by some (Kalisch); while, if it was, it must have required considerable effrontery to appeal to his wives' knowledge for a confirmation of what they knew to be a deliberate untruth. The hypothesis that Jacob first acquired his great wealth by "consummate cunning," and then piously "abused the authority of God in covering or justifying them" (Kalisch), presupposes on the part of Jacob a degree of wickedness inconceivable in one who had enjoyed the sublime theophany of Bethel.