Genesis 31:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 31:1 : 1 And 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 31:16 : 16 For 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.
  • Esth 8:1-2 : 1 On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, to Queen Esther. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had revealed who he was to her. 2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the house of Haman.
  • Ps 50:10 : 10 For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
  • Prov 13:22 : 22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye evil, because I am good?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 31:5-8
    4 verses
    86%

    5 And 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.

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

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

    8 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.

  • Gen 31:10-12
    3 verses
    83%

    10 And 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.

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

    12 And 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
    78%

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

    29 He 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?"

    31 He 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."

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

    35 He 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 31:16
    77%

    16 For 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.

  • Gen 30:38-39
    2 verses
    76%

    38 He 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.

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

  • Gen 31:18
    75%

    18 And 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 31:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    29 It is in my power to do you harm: but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Beware that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

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

  • Gen 31:1
    74%

    1 And 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 31:41-43
    3 verses
    74%

    41 Thus 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.

    42 Except 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.

    43 And 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 31:37-39
    3 verses
    73%

    37 Whereas 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.

    38 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.

    39 That 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 30:41-42
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Gen 33:8
    72%

    8 And 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.

  • Josh 24:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and gave him Isaac.

    4 And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

  • Gen 33:11
    72%

    11 Take, I pray you, my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

  • Gen 47:16
    72%

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

  • Gen 32:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

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

    16 And 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 21:27
    71%

    27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and both of them made a covenant.

  • Gen 27:35
    71%

    35 And he said, Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.

  • Gen 48:22
    71%

    22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

  • Gen 27:9
    71%

    9 Go 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:

  • Gen 21:30
    71%

    30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs you shall take from my hand, that they may be a witness that I have dug this well.

  • Gen 28:4
    71%

    4 And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you; that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.