Genesis 31:38

Bible in Basic English (1941)

These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.

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  • Gen 30:27 : 27 And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.
  • Gen 30:30 : 30 For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?
  • Exod 23:26 : 26 All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.
  • Deut 28:4 : 4 A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.
  • Ezek 34:2-4 : 2 Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep? 3 You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food. 4 You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.

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  • Gen 31:39-42
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    39Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.

    40This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

    41These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

    42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

  • Gen 30:28-33
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    77%

    28Say then what your payment is to be and I will give it.

    29Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.

    30For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

    31And Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do not give me anything; but I will again take up the care of your flock if you will only do this for me:

    32Let me go through all your flock today, taking out from among them all the sheep which are marked or coloured or black, and all the marked or coloured goats: these will be my payment.

    33And so you will be able to put my honour to the test in time to come; if you see among my flocks any goats which are not marked or coloured, or any sheep which is not black, you may take me for a thief.

  • Job 31:19-20
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    19If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

    20If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

  • Gen 31:37
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    37Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.

  • Gen 32:14-15
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    14Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred females and twenty males from the sheep,

    15Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.

  • Gen 31:5-10
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    5And he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's feeling is no longer what it was to me; but the God of my father has been with me

    6And you have seen how I have done all in my power for your father,

    7But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.

    8If he said, All those in the flock which have marks are to be yours, then all the flock gave birth to marked young; and if he said, All the banded ones are to be yours, then all the flock had banded young.

    9So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

    10And at the time when the flock were with young, I saw in a dream that all the he-goats which were joined with the she-goats were banded and marked and coloured.

  • Gen 33:13
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    13But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

  • 1 Sam 25:7
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    7I have had word that you have wool-cutters: now the keepers of your sheep have been with us, and we have done them no evil, and taken nothing of theirs while they were in Carmel.

  • Gen 31:12
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    12And he said, See how all the he-goats are banded and marked and coloured: for I have seen what Laban has done to you.

  • Deut 8:4
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    4Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.

  • Gen 27:9
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    9Go to the flock and get me two fat young goats; and I will make of them a meal to your father's taste:

  • Deut 2:7
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    7For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.

  • 1 Sam 25:16
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    16But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.

  • Job 31:39
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    39If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

  • Gen 44:32
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    32For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

  • Prov 27:26
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    26The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:

  • Judg 19:19
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    19But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.

  • Gen 29:7
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    7Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food.

  • Deut 29:5
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    5For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.

  • Ezek 34:17
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    17And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats.

  • Gen 30:42
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    42But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.

  • Ps 50:9
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    9I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks;

  • Exod 22:30
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    30In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me.

  • Gen 31:30
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    30And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?

  • Gen 46:32
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    32And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.

  • Job 30:1
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    1But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

  • Num 31:44
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    44And thirty-six thousand oxen,

  • Gen 31:32
    69%

    32As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.

  • Gen 31:28
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    28You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.

  • Gen 30:39
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    39And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour.

  • Prov 27:23
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    23Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;