Genesis 31:6
Good News Translation
You both know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.

New Revised Standard Version
You know that I have served your father with all my strength;

Contemporary English Version
You know that I have worked hard for your father

New American Bible
You know well that with all my strength I served your father;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power.

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And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power.

Genesis 31:38-42 Have I, therefore, been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat: . . .

Genesis 30:29 But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.

Ephesians 6:5-8 Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ. . . .

Colossians 3:22-25 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh: not serving to the eye, as pleasing men: but in simplicity of heart, fearing God. . . .

Titus 2:9,10 Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters: in all things pleasing, not gainsaying: . . .

1 Peter 2:18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward.

Context
Jacob Flees from Laban
5And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me. 6And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power.7Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.…
Cross References
Genesis 30:29
But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.

Genesis 31:7
Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.

Genesis 31:5
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