Genesis 31:15
Good News Translation
He treats us like foreigners. He sold us, and now he has spent all the money he was paid for us.

New Revised Standard Version
Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has been using up the money given for us.

Contemporary English Version
He treats us like foreigners and has even cheated us out of the bride price that should have been ours.

New American Bible
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? He not only sold us; he has even used up the money that he got for us!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

sold us.

Genesis 31:41 And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.

Genesis 29:15-20,27-30 He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me without wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have. . . .

Genesis 30:26 Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.

Exodus 21:7-11 If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out. . . .

Nehemiah 5:8 And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their peace, and found not what to answer.

Context
Jacob Flees from Laban
14And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house? 15Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?16But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.…
Cross References
Genesis 29:20
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.

Genesis 29:23
And at night he brought in Lia, his daughter, to him,

Genesis 31:14
And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?

Genesis 31:16
But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.

Genesis 31:14
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