Genesis 31:38

American Standard Version (1901)

These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 30:27 : 27 And Laban said unto him, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, [tarry] : [for] I have divined that Jehovah hath blessed me for thy sake.
  • Gen 30:30 : 30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and Jehovah hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
  • Exod 23:26 : 26 There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
  • Deut 28:4 : 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy beasts, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.
  • Ezek 34:2-4 : 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, even to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe unto the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the sheep? 3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep. 4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have ye ruled over them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 31:39-42
    4 verses
    81%

    39That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

    40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

    41These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

    42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

  • Gen 30:28-33
    6 verses
    77%

    28And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

    29And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.

    30For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and Jehovah hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

    31And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.

    32I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and [of such] shall be my hire.

    33So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when thou shalt come concerning my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that, [if found] with me, shall be counted stolen.

  • Job 31:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

    20If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

  • Gen 31:37
    74%

    37Whereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two.

  • Gen 32:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

    15thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.

  • Gen 31:5-10
    6 verses
    73%

    5and said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.

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

    7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

    8If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked.

    9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

    10And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled.

  • Gen 33:13
    71%

    13And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

  • 1 Sam 25:7
    71%

    7And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: thy shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there aught missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.

  • Gen 31:12
    71%

    12And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

  • Deut 8:4
    70%

    4Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

  • Gen 27:9
    70%

    9Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savory food for thy father, such as he loveth:

  • Deut 2:7
    70%

    7For Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; he hath known thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

  • 1 Sam 25:16
    70%

    16they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

  • Job 31:39
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    39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

  • Gen 44:32
    70%

    32For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever.

  • Prov 27:26
    70%

    26The lambs are for thy clothing, And the goats are the price of the field;

  • Judg 19:19
    70%

    19Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man that is with thy servants: there is no want of anything.

  • Gen 29:7
    70%

    7And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.

  • Deut 29:5
    70%

    5And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot.

  • Ezek 34:17
    69%

    17And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the he-goats.

  • Gen 30:42
    69%

    42but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

  • Ps 50:9
    69%

    9I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds.

  • Exod 22:30
    69%

    30Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, [and] with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

  • Gen 31:30
    69%

    30And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet] wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

  • Gen 46:32
    69%

    32and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

  • Job 30:1
    69%

    1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

  • Num 31:44
    69%

    44and thirty and six thousand oxen,

  • Gen 31:32
    69%

    32With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

  • Gen 31:28
    69%

    28and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.

  • Gen 30:39
    69%

    39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

  • Prov 27:23
    68%

    23Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [And] look well to thy herds: