Genesis 31:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

If he thus sayd, The spotted shall be thy wages, then all the sheepe bare spotted: and if he sayd thus, the party coloured shalbe thy rewarde, then bare all the sheepe particoloured.

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  • Gen 30:32 : 32 I wil passe through all thy flockes this day, and separate from them all the sheepe with litle spots & great spots, and al blacke lambes among the sheepe, and the great spotted, and litle spotted among the goates: and it shalbe my wages.

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  • Gen 31:9-12
    4 verses
    86%

    9Thus hath God taken away your fathers substance, and giuen it me.

    10For in ramming time I lifted vp mine eyes and saw in a dreame, & beholde, ye hee goates leaped vpon the shee goates, that were partie coloured with litle and great spots spotted.

    11And the Angel of God sayde to mee in a dreame, Iaakob; I answered, Lo, I am here.

    12And he sayde, Lift vp nowe thine eyes, and see all the hee goates leaping vpon ye shee goates that are partie coloured, spotted with litle and great spots: for I haue seene all that Laban doeth vnto thee.

  • Gen 30:28-35
    8 verses
    83%

    28Also he said, Appoynt vnto me thy wages, and I will giue it thee.

    29But he sayd vnto him, Thou knowest, what seruice I haue done thee, and in what taking thy cattell hath bene vnder me.

    30For the litle, that thou haddest before I came, is increased into a multitude: and the Lorde hath blessed thee by my coming: but nowe when shall I trauell for mine owne house also?

    31Then he saide, What shal I giue thee? And Iaakob answered, Thou shalt giue mee nothing at all: if thou wilt doe this thing for mee, I will returne, feede, and keepe thy sheepe.

    32I wil passe through all thy flockes this day, and separate from them all the sheepe with litle spots & great spots, and al blacke lambes among the sheepe, and the great spotted, and litle spotted among the goates: and it shalbe my wages.

    33So shal my righteousnesse answere for me hereafter, when it shall come for my rewarde before thy face, and euery one that hath not litle or great spots among the goates, and blacke among the sheepe, the same shalbe theft with me.

    34Then Laban sayde, Goe to, woulde God it might be according to thy saying.

    35Therefore he tooke out the same day the hee goates that were partie coloured and with great spots, and all the shee goates with litle and great spots, and all that had white in them, and all the blacke among the sheepe, and put them in the keeping of his sonnes.

  • Gen 31:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    5Then sayde hee vnto them, I see your fathers countenance, that it is not towardes me as it was wont, and the God of my father hath bene with me.

    6And yee knowe that I haue serued your father with all my might.

    7But your father hath deceiued me, & changed my wages tenne times: but God suffred him not to hurt me.

  • Gen 30:37-43
    7 verses
    81%

    37Then Iaakob tooke rods of greene popular, and of hasell, and of the chesnut tree, and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appeare in the rods.

    38Then he put the rods, which he had pilled, in the gutters and watering troughes, when the sheepe came to drink, before the sheepe. (for they were in heate, when they came to drinke)

    39And the sheepe were in heate before the rods, and afterward brought forth yong of partie colour, and with small and great spots.

    40And Iaakob parted these lambes, and turned the faces of the flocke towardes these lambes partie coloured and all maner of blacke, among the sheepe of Laban: so hee put his owne flockes by themselues, and put them not with Labans flocke.

    41And in euery ramming time of the stronger sheepe, Iaakob layde the rods before the eyes of the sheepe in the gutters, that they might conceiue before the rods.

    42But when the sheepe were feeble, hee put them not in: and so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iaakobs.

    43So the man encreased exceedingly, and had many flockes, and maide seruantes, and men seruants, and camels and asses.

  • Gen 31:41-43
    3 verses
    73%

    41Thus haue I bene twentie yeere in thine house, and serued thee fourteene yeeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yeeres for thy sheepe, and thou hast changed my wages tenne times.

    42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Izhak had bene with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe emptie: but God behelde my tribulation, & the labour of mine hads, & rebuked thee yester night.

    43Then Laban answered, and saide vnto Iaakob, These daughters are my daughters, & these sonnes are my sonnes, and these sheepe are my sheepe, and all that thou seest, is mine, and what can I doe this day vnto these my daughters, or to their sonnes which they haue borne?

  • Gen 31:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Doeth not he count vs as strangers? For he hath solde vs, and hath eaten vp and consumed our money.

    16Therefore all the riches, which God hath taken from our father, is ours and our childrens: nowe then whatsoeuer God hath saide vnto thee, doe it.

  • Job 31:20
    71%

    20If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,

  • Gen 31:38-39
    2 verses
    71%

    38This twenty yere I haue bin with thee: thine ewes & thy goates haue not cast their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.

    39Whatsoeuer was torne of beasts, I brought it not vnto thee, but made it good my selfe: of mine hand diddest thou require it, were it stollen by day or stollen by night.

  • Gen 32:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15Thirtie mylche camels with their coltes, fourtie kine, and ten bullockes, twentie she asses and ten foles.

    16So he deliuered them into the hande of his seruants, euery droue by themselues, and saide vnto his seruants, Passe before me, & put a space betweene droue and droue.

  • Gen 29:15
    70%

    15For Laban sayde vnto Iaakob, Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therfore serue me for nought? tell me, what shalbe thy wages?

  • Gen 31:1
    70%

    1Now he heard the words of Labans sonnes, saying, Iaakob hath taken away all that was our fathers, and of our fathers goods hath he gotten all this honour.

  • Gen 31:18
    69%

    18And he caried away all his flockes, & al his substance which he had gotten, to wit, his riches, which he had gotten in Padan Aram, to goe to Izhak his father vnto the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 47:16
    69%

    16Then saide Ioseph, Bring your cattell, and I will giue you for your cattell, if your money be spent.

  • Job 39:12
    69%

    12(39:15) Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?

  • Gen 33:13
    69%

    13Then he answered him, My lord knoweth, that the children are tender, & the ewes & kine with yong vnder mine hande: and if they should ouerdriue them one day, all the flocke would die.

  • Job 31:39
    69%

    39If I haue eaten the fruites thereof without siluer: or if I haue grieued the soules of the masters thereof,

  • Gen 33:8
    69%

    8Then he said, What meanest thou by all this droue, which I met? Who answered, I haue sent it, that I may finde fauour in the sight of my lorde:

  • Gen 44:32
    68%

    32Doubtlesse thy seruant became suertie for the childe to my father, and said, If I bring him not vnto thee againe, then I will beare the blame vnto my father for euer.

  • Gen 46:32
    68%

    32And the men are shepheardes, & because they are shepheardes, they haue brought their sheepe and their cattell, and all that they haue.

  • Gen 32:8
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    8For he said, If Esau come to ye one copanie and smite it, the other companie shall escape.