Genesis 31:8

King James Version 1611 (Original)

If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.

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  • Gen 30:32 : 32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle 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%

    9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

    10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.

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

    12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

  • Gen 30:28-35
    8 verses
    83%

    28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

    29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

    30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

    31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

    32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

    33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

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

    35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

  • Gen 31:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.

    6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

    7 And 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%

    37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

    38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

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

    40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

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

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

    43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

  • Gen 31:41-43
    3 verses
    73%

    41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

    42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

    43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

  • Gen 31:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

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

  • 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

  • Gen 31:38-39
    2 verses
    71%

    38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

    39 That 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%

    15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

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

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

  • 1 And 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.

  • 18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

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

  • 12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

  • 13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

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

  • 8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

  • 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

  • 32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

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