Genesis 31:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

If 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.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    If 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.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    When he sayde the spotted shalbe thy wages tha all the shepe barespotted. Yf he sayde the straked shalbe thi rewarde tha bare all the shepe straked:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Yf he sayde: The partye coloured shalbe thy rewarde, then the whole flocke bare partye coloured.Yf he sayde: The speckelde shalbe thy rewarde, the the whole flocke bare speckelde.

  • 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.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    When he sayde, the spotted shalbe thy wages: then al the sheepe bare spotted. And when he sayd, the ringstraked shalbe thy rewarde: then bare all the sheepe ringstraked.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `If he say thus: The speckled are thy hire, then bare all the flock speckled ones; and if he say thus: The ring-straked are thy hire, then bare all the flock ring-straked;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    If he said, All those in the flock which have marks are to be yours, then all the flock gave birth to marked young; and if he said, All the banded ones are to be yours, then all the flock had banded young.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    If he said,‘The speckled animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said,‘The streaked animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 30:32 : 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."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 31:9-12
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    86%

    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.

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

    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 30:28-35
    8 verses
    83%

    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."

    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.

  • Gen 31:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Gen 30:37-43
    7 verses
    81%

    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.

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

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

  • Gen 31:41-43
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    73%

    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.

    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 31:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Are we not regarded by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and has also utterly consumed our money.

    16For all the riches which God has taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatever God has said to you, do.

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    20If 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%

    38These 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.

    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.

  • Gen 32:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    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 29:15
    70%

    15And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?

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    70%

    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.

  • Gen 31:18
    69%

    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.

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

  • Job 39:12
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    12Will you rely on him to bring home your grain and gather it into your barn?

  • 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.

  • Job 31:39
    69%

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

  • Gen 33:8
    69%

    8And he said, What do you mean by all this company which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

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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.

  • 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.

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