Genesis 31:41 (WEB)
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.
Fathers and councils · 3
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…serve this Jacob; but even after he had received the blessing, he himself going forth [from his home], served his uncle Laban the Syrian for twenty years; and not only was he not made lord of his brother, but he did himself bow down before his brother Esau, upon his return from Mesopotamia to his father, and…” — editor's note: Gen. xxxi. 41.
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Jerome
“…the fairest spot in the division of the land of Judah, and died, not in the twenties, which are ever unlucky in Scripture—by them are reckoned the years ofJacob’s service,the price of Joseph, andsundry presents which Esau who was fond of them received—but in thetens, whose praises we have often sung; and he was…” — editor's note: Gen. xxxi. 41.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Was not Jacob blessed who, leaving his father’s house, endured exile as a shepherd for pay, and mourned for the violated chastity of his daughter, and suffered hunger?” — editor's note: Gen. xxxi. 41.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Against Heresies V.33.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.33.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.33.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.33.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.33.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.33.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.33.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.33.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.33.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.33.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.33.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.33.