Jakob drew up the final accounting for the court of kinsmen. These twenty years have I been in thy house, serving thee; fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep; and thou hast changed my wages ten parts (Genesis 31:41).
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan preserves the tally because the tally itself is the verdict. Fourteen years for Leah and Rahel — seven apiece, the price of two daughters who had been deceitfully swapped. Six more years for the flocks. Total: twenty.
And in that span, Laban had altered the terms of payment ten separate times. Not ten metaphorical times. Ten actual revisions of the contract, each one designed to erode Jakob's share. The flocks kept cooperating with heaven and defeating each new rule.
When a man speaks his twenty-year accounting out loud in front of witnesses, he is not complaining. He is testifying. The numbers were the witnesses Laban could not cross-examine.
The Maggid teaches: keep count. The righteous do not always speak of what they have endured, but when the hour of reckoning finally arrives, the ledger is there. Fourteen plus six. Ten revisions. Zero dishonesty on the shepherd's side. That is what the court sees.