Genesis 31:8

American Standard Version (1901)

If 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.

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  • Gen 30:32 : 32 I 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.

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  • Gen 31:9-12
    4 verses
    86%

    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.

    11And the angel of God said unto me in the dream, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.

    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.

  • Gen 30:28-35
    8 verses
    83%

    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.

    34And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

    35And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons;

  • Gen 31:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Gen 30:37-43
    7 verses
    81%

    37And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

    38And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.

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

    40And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock.

    41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

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

    43And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses.

  • Gen 31:41-43
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

    43And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom they have borne?

  • Gen 31:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.

    16For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

  • Job 31:20
    71%

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

  • Gen 31:38-39
    2 verses
    71%

    38These 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.

    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.

  • Gen 32:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

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

    16And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

  • Gen 29:15
    70%

    15And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?

  • Gen 31:1
    70%

    1And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.

  • Gen 31:18
    69%

    18and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 47:16
    69%

    16And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

  • Job 39:12
    69%

    12Wilt thou confide in him, that he will bring home thy seed, And gather [the grain] of thy threshing-floor?

  • Gen 33:13
    69%

    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.

  • Job 31:39
    69%

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

  • Gen 33:8
    69%

    8And he said, What meanest thou by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord.

  • Gen 44:32
    68%

    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.

  • Gen 46:32
    68%

    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.

  • Gen 32:8
    68%

    8and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.