Genesis 31:38

KJV1611 – Modern English

These twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your she goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten.

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  • Gen 30:27 : 27 Laban said to him, "I pray you, if I have found favor in your eyes, stay, for I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."
  • Gen 30:30 : 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?"
  • Exod 23:26 : 26 No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
  • Deut 28:4 : 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep.
  • Ezek 34:2-4 : 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD to the shepherds; Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? 3 You eat the fat, and clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you do not feed the flock. 4 The diseased you have not strengthened, nor have you healed that which was sick, nor have you bound up that which was broken, nor have you brought back that which was driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty you have ruled them.

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  • Gen 31:39-42
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    81%

    39That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it; from my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or by night.

    40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.

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

    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.

  • Gen 30:28-33
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    77%

    28He said, "Set your wages, and I will give it."

    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."

  • Job 31:19-20
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    74%

    19If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or any poor without covering;

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

  • Gen 31:37
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    37Whereas you have searched all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? set it here before my brethren and your brethren, that they may judge between us both.

  • Gen 32:14-15
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    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.

  • Gen 31:5-10
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    5And said to them, I see your father's expression, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

    6And you know that with all my strength I have served your father.

    7And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to harm me.

    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 33:13
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 25:7
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    7And now I have heard that you have shearers; now your shepherds that were with us, we did not harm them, nor was there anything missing from them, all the while they were in Carmel.

  • Gen 31:12
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 8:4
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    4Your clothing did not wear out upon you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.

  • Gen 27:9
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    9Go now to the flock, and bring me from there two good young goats; and I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves:

  • Deut 2:7
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    7For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hands; He knows your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.

  • 1 Sam 25:16
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    16They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

  • Job 31:39
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    39If I have eaten its fruits without payment, or caused the owners to lose their life;

  • Gen 44:32
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    32For your servant became a guarantee for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.

  • Prov 27:26
    70%

    26The lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

  • Judg 19:19
    70%

    19Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and there is bread and wine also for me, for your maidservant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything."

  • Gen 29:7
    70%

    7And he said, Look, it is still broad daylight; it is not time for the cattle to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.

  • Deut 29:5
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    5And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your shoes have not worn out upon your feet.

  • Ezek 34:17
    69%

    17And as for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the goats.

  • Gen 30:42
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    42But when the cattle were feeble, he did not put them in. Thus, the feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's.

  • Ps 50:9
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    9I will take no bull from your house, nor goats from your folds.

  • Exod 22:30
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    30Likewise you shall do with your oxen and your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

  • Gen 31:30
    69%

    30And now, though you would certainly be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, yet why have you stolen my gods?

  • Gen 46:32
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    32And the men are shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, herds, and all that they have.

  • Job 30:1
    69%

    1But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

  • Num 31:44
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    44And thirty-six thousand cattle,

  • Gen 31:32
    69%

    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.

  • Gen 31:28
    69%

    28And have not allowed me to kiss my sons and my daughters? You have now done foolishly in so doing.

  • Gen 30:39
    69%

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

  • Prov 27:23
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    23Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.