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# General Information:
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Jacob continues to speak to Laban.
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# These twenty years
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"These last 20 years" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# fourteen years
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"14 years" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# changed my wages ten times
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"changed what he said he would pay me ten times." See how you translated "my wages" in [Genesis 31:7](./07.md).
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# Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the one Isaac fears, had been with me
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Jacob is referring to the same God not to three different gods. AT: "If the God of Abraham and Isaac, my father, had not been with me"
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# the God of my father
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Here the word "father" refers to his parent, Isaac.
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# the one Isaac fears
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Here the word "fears" refers to the "fear of Yahweh," which means to deeply respect him and show that respect by obeying him.
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# empty-handed
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This stands for having nothing. AT: "with absolutely nothing" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# God has seen my oppression and how hard I worked
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The abstract noun "oppression" can be stated as "oppressed." AT: "God has seen how hard I worked and how you oppressed me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/biblicaltimeyear]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/household]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/flock]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/father]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/abraham]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/isaac]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/fear]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/oppress]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/rebuke]] |