Discovery BoxGenesis 31:40-41 
Context31:40 I was consumed by scorching heat 1 during the day and by piercing cold 2 at night, and I went without sleep. 3 31:41 This was my lot 4 for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave 5 for you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!
1 tn Or “by drought.”
2 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.
3 tn Heb “and my sleep fled from my eyes.”
4 tn Heb “this to me.”
5 tn Heb “served you,” but in this accusatory context the meaning is more “worked like a slave.”
