Genesis 31:15 BSB — MannaFest

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11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הֲל֧וֹא	ha.Lo'	¿ not	H3808 →
נָכְרִיּ֛וֹת	na.khe.ri.Yot	foreigners	H5237 →
נֶחְשַׁ֥בְנוּ	nech.Shav.nu	are we accounted	H2803 →
ל֖וֹ	lo	by <the> him
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
מְכָרָ֑נוּ	me.kha.Ra.nu	he has sold us	H4376 →
וַיֹּ֥אכַל	vai.Yo.khal	and he has consumed	H398 →
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
אָכ֖וֹל	'a.Khol	continuously <to consume>	H398 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כַּסְפֵּֽנוּ׃	kas.Pe.nu	money our	H3701 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”
leads to
- Genesis 29:30
  Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
- Hosea 12:12
  Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
- Genesis 31:38–41
  I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.
- Genesis 31:6
  You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
- Genesis 31:26
  Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
Through
Genesis 31:41
Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
leads to
- Genesis 31:7
  And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
- 2 Corinthians 11:26
  In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger…
- Genesis 30:33–40
  So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are…

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Genesis 29:15–20Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”Genesis 29:30Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.Genesis 30:26Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”Genesis 31:41Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!Exodus 21:7–11And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.Genesis 29:27–30Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”Nehemiah 5:8and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.Romans 9:8So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

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