Genesis 31:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

Ye know that ... I have served. Having stated his strong grounds of dissatisfaction with their father's conduct, and the ill requital he had gotten for all his faithful services, he informed them of the blessing of God, that had made him rich notwithstanding Laban's design to ruin him; and, finally, of the command from God he had received to return to his own country, that they might not accuse him of caprice, or disaffection to their family; but be convinced that, in resolving to depart, he acted from a principle of religious obedience.

Genesis 31:6

6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.