“And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.”
Jacob said to him: you know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care. The opening of Jacob's counter-proposal is the same appeal to shared knowledge: you know what I have done. The work of fourteen years is the credential Jacob brings to the negotiation. The application: the honest accounting of your own contribution, without exaggeration or false modesty, is the legitimate basis for a renegotiation.
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