Genesis 31:9

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

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  • Gen 31:1 : 1 Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, 'Jacob has taken all that belonged to our father and has acquired all this wealth from what was our father’s.'
  • Gen 31:16 : 16 Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you to do.'
  • Esth 8:1-2 : 1 On that day, King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into the king’s presence because Esther had revealed how he was related to her. 2 The king removed his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over Haman’s estate.
  • Ps 50:10 : 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
  • Prov 13:22 : 22 A good person leaves an inheritance for their grandchildren, but the sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 'Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 31:5-8
    4 verses
    86%

    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.

  • Gen 31:10-12
    3 verses
    83%

    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.

    11In the dream, the angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' And I replied, 'Here I am.'

    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.

  • Gen 30:28-35
    8 verses
    78%

    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.

    34Laban said, 'Very well, let it be as you have said.'

    35That same day, Laban went and removed all the streaked or spotted male goats, all the speckled or spotted female goats, and every dark-colored lamb. He placed them in the care of his sons.

  • Gen 31:16
    77%

    16Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you to do.'

  • Gen 30:38-39
    2 verses
    76%

    38He placed the peeled branches in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so they would mate when they came to drink.

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

  • Gen 31:18
    75%

    18He drove all his livestock and all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan Aram to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 31:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    29I have the power to harm you, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

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

  • Gen 31:1
    74%

    1Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, 'Jacob has taken all that belonged to our father and has acquired all this wealth from what was our father’s.'

  • Gen 31:41-43
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

    43Laban answered Jacob, 'The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or about the children they have borne?

  • Gen 31:37-39
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

    38I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten rams from your flocks.

    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.

  • Gen 30:41-42
    2 verses
    72%

    41Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks so they would mate near the branches.

    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.

  • Gen 33:8
    72%

    8'What do you mean by all these camps I met?' Esau inquired. Jacob replied, 'To find favor in the eyes of my lord.'

  • Josh 24:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3But I took your ancestor Abraham from beyond the Euphrates River, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac.

    4And to Isaac, I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave the hill country of Seir to Esau to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

  • Gen 33:11
    72%

    11Please accept the blessing that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me, and I have all I need.' And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it.

  • Gen 47:16
    72%

    16Joseph said, 'Bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for them if your money is gone.'

  • Gen 32:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

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

    16Thirty camels nursing their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys.

  • Gen 21:27
    71%

    27So Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

  • Gen 27:35
    71%

    35But Isaac said, 'Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.'

  • Gen 48:22
    71%

    22And to you, I give one more portion than your brothers, the portion I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.

  • Gen 27:9
    71%

    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.

  • Gen 21:30
    71%

    30He replied, 'Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.'

  • Gen 28:4
    71%

    4May he give to you and your descendants with you the blessing of Abraham, that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.