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These twenty years have I been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven`t eaten the rams of your flocks.
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A Model of Integrity
Commentators highlight Jacob's exceptional integrity during his twenty years of service. He ensured the flock's prosperity, noting that Laban's ewes and goats did not miscarry. Furthermore, he practiced personal restraint by not eating the valuable rams, demonstrating his character as a faithful steward even when working for a deceitful master.
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Genesis
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18th Century
Presbyterian
תרפים terāpı̂ym — Teraphim. This word occurs fifteen times in the Old Testament. It appears three times in this chapte…
19th Century
Anglican
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19–35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
Abraham beg…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
This twenty years [have] I been [with] thee So that he now must have been ninety seven years of age:
y…
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