Genesis 31:38

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I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten rams from your flocks.

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  • Gen 30:27 : 27 But Laban said to him, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me because of you.'
  • Gen 30:30 : 30 For you had little before I came, but now it has increased greatly. The LORD has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when can I provide for my own household?
  • Exod 23:26 : 26 None will miscarry or be barren in your land, and I will fulfill the number of your days.
  • Deut 28:4 : 4 Blessed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, and the offspring of your livestock—including the young of your cattle and the increase of your flocks.
  • Ezek 34:2-4 : 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, the shepherds: This is what the Lord GOD says, 'Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock? 3 You eat the fat, wear the wool, and slaughter the fattened animals, but you do not feed the flock. 4 You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them harshly and brutally.

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  • Gen 31:39-42
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    81%

    39I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night.

    40This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime, and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

    41It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

    42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.

  • Gen 30:28-33
    6 verses
    77%

    28He continued, 'Name your wages, and I will pay them.'

    29Jacob said to him, 'You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.'

    30For you had little before I came, but now it has increased greatly. The LORD has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when can I provide for my own household?

    31Laban asked, 'What shall I give you?' Jacob replied, 'You shall give me nothing. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to tend and watch over your flock.'

    32Let me pass through all your flocks today and remove every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will become my wages.

    33My honesty will testify for me in the future. When you check what I’ve taken as payment, if you find any in my possession that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or dark-colored among the lambs, let it be considered stolen.

  • Job 31:19-20
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    74%

    19if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or the needy without garments,

    20and their hearts did not bless me for warming them with the fleece from my sheep—

  • Gen 31:37
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    37You have searched through all my belongings. What have you found that belongs to your household? Place it here in front of my relatives and yours, and let them judge between us.

  • Gen 32:14-15
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    14So he spent the night there, and from what he had with him, he prepared a gift for his brother Esau.

    15Two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams.

  • Gen 31:5-10
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    73%

    5He said to them, 'I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not as it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.'

    6You know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.

    7Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not let him harm me.

    8If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then the flock bore speckled young. And if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then the flock bore streaked young.

    9So God has taken away your father’s livestock and given it to me.

    10During the mating season of the flock, I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

  • Gen 33:13
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    13But Jacob replied, 'My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds that are nursing are my responsibility. If they are driven hard even for one day, all the flocks will die.'

  • 1 Sam 25:7
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    7I have heard that you are shearing your sheep. While your shepherds were with us, we did not harm them, nor was anything of theirs missing during their time in Carmel.

  • Gen 31:12
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    12He said, 'Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

  • Deut 8:4
    70%

    4Your clothing did not wear out, nor did your feet swell during these forty years.

  • Gen 27:9
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    9Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can prepare a tasty meal for your father, just the way he loves it.

  • Deut 2:7
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    7The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.

  • 1 Sam 25:16
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    16They were a wall of protection around us, both night and day, the whole time we were with them tending the sheep.

  • Job 31:39
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    39if I have eaten its produce without payment and caused the death of its owners,

  • Gen 44:32
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    32For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'

  • Prov 27:26
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    26the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.

  • Judg 19:19
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    19We have straw and feed for our donkeys, as well as bread and wine for me, your servant, for the woman with me, and for the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing."

  • Gen 29:7
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    7He said, 'Look, the day is still high; it is not time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them out to pasture.'

  • Deut 29:5
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    5You did not eat bread or drink wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

  • Ezek 34:17
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    17As for you, My flock, this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.

  • Gen 30:42
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    42But if the animals were weak, he would not place the branches there. So the weaker animals went to Laban, and the stronger ones to Jacob.

  • Ps 50:9
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    9I will not take a bull from your house, nor goats from your pens.

  • Exod 22:30
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    30You are to be holy to me. Do not eat meat torn by wild animals in the field; throw it to the dogs.

  • Gen 31:30
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    30Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?

  • Gen 46:32
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    32The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks, herds, and everything they own.

  • Job 30:1
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    1But now, those younger than I mock me—people whose fathers I would have refused to place with my sheepdogs.

  • Num 31:44
    69%

    4436,000 cattle,

  • Gen 31:32
    69%

    32But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether anything of yours is here with me; and if so, take it.' Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

  • Gen 31:28
    69%

    28You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing.

  • Gen 30:39
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    39And the flocks mated in front of the branches, and they gave birth to young that were streaked, speckled, or spotted.

  • Prov 27:23
    68%

    23Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds.