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"This is how I was: by day the ^(F1)heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

"For these twenty years I have been in your house; ^(C1)I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you ^(C2)changed my wages ten times.

"If ^(C1)the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. ^(C2)God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, so He ^(C3)rendered judgment last night."

Then Laban replied to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the ^(F1)children are my ^(F1)grandchildren, ^(C1)the flocks are my flocks, and everything that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these daughters of mine or to their children to whom they have given birth?

"So now come, let's ^(C1)make a covenant, ^(F1)you and I, and ^(C2)it shall be a witness between ^(F2)you and me."