Genesis 30:42

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

Additional Resources

Other Translations

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 30:29-41
    13 verses
    87%

    29He said to him, "You know how I have served you and how your cattle have been with me."

    30"For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased to a multitude, and the LORD has blessed you since my coming. Now, when shall I provide for my own house also?"

    31He said, "What shall I give you?" And Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything; if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flock."

    32"I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there 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 wages."

    33"So my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come, when it comes for my wages before your face. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and brown among the sheep shall be counted stolen with me."

    34Laban said, "Behold, I would it might be according to your word."

    35He removed that day the he-goats that were ringstraked and spotted, 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 hands of his sons.

    36He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

    37Jacob took rods of green poplar, hazel, and chestnut tree, peeled white stripes in them, and made the white appear in the rods.

    38He set the rods which he had peeled 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.

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

    40Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks towards the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban. He put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban's cattle.

    41Whenever the stronger cattle conceived, Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, so they might conceive among the rods.

  • Gen 30:43
    79%

    43The man increased exceedingly and had much cattle, maidservants, menservants, camels, and donkeys.

  • Gen 31:12
    76%

    12And he said, Lift up now your eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are streaked, speckled, and spotted: for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

  • Gen 31:8-10
    3 verses
    74%

    8If he said, The speckled shall be your wages; then all the cattle bore speckled: and if he said, The streaked shall be your pay; then all the cattle bore streaked.

    9So God has taken away the cattle of your father and given them to me.

    10And it happened, at the time when the cattle conceived, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

  • Gen 31:42-43
    2 verses
    74%

    42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.

    43And Laban answered and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

  • Gen 31:4
    73%

    4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

  • Gen 32:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14Two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

    15Thirty milking camels with their young, forty cows, and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten foals.

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

  • Gen 31:32-33
    2 verses
    73%

    32With whomever you find your gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern what is yours with me, and take it to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

    33And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

  • Gen 36:7
    73%

    7For their riches were too great for them to live together; and the land where they were strangers could not support them because of their livestock.

  • Gen 31:18
    72%

    18And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the livestock that he had acquired in Padan Aram, to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 31:25
    72%

    25Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount, and Laban with his brethren pitched in Mount Gilead.

  • Gen 29:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9And while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she tended them.

    10And when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

  • Gen 33:13
    72%

    13And he said to him, My lord knows 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.

  • Gen 31:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's; and from that which was our father's, he has gained all this wealth.

    2And Jacob noticed the expression of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as before.

  • Gen 29:26
    71%

    26And Laban said, It must not be done so in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

  • Gen 29:16
    71%

    16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

  • Gen 29:6
    71%

    6And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well; and behold, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.