Genesis 31:9-12

31:9 In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

31:10 “Once ¹  during breeding season I saw ²  in a dream that the male goats mating with ³  the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted. 31:11 In the dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ ‘Here I am!’ I replied. 31:12 Then he said, ‘Observe ⁴  that all the male goats mating with ⁵  the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

Genesis 31:38

31:38 “I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

Genesis 31:40

31:40 I was consumed by scorching heat ⁶  during the day and by piercing cold ⁷  at night, and I went without sleep. ⁸ 

Genesis 31:42

31:42 If the God of my father – the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears ⁹  – had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, ¹⁰  and he rebuked you last night.”

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¹ tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator, “and it happened at the time of.”

² tn Heb “in the time of the breeding of the flock I lifted up my eyes and I saw.”

³ tn Heb “going up on,” that is, mounting for intercourse.

⁴ tn Heb “lift up (now) your eyes and see.”

⁵ tn Heb “going up on,” that is, mounting for intercourse.

⁶ tn Or “by drought.”

⁷ tn Heb “frost, ice,” though when contrasted with the חֹרֶב (khorev, “drought, parching heat”) of the day, “piercing cold” is more appropriate as a contrast.

⁸ tn Heb “and my sleep fled from my eyes.”

⁹ tn Heb “the fear of Isaac,” that is, the one whom Isaac feared and respected. For further discussion of this title see M. Malul, “More on pahad yitschaq (Gen. 31:42,53) and the Oath by the Thigh,” VT 35 (1985): 192-200.

¹⁰ tn Heb “My oppression and the work of my hands God saw.”