Genesis 30:43

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

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  • Gen 30:30 : 30 Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”
  • Gen 24:35 : 35 “The LORD has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
  • Gen 26:13-14 : 13 The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent. 14 He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.
  • Gen 13:2 : 2 (Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)
  • Gen 12:16 : 16 and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
  • Gen 28:15 : 15 I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”
  • Gen 31:7-8 : 7 but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm. 8 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.
  • Gen 31:42 : 42 If the God of my father– the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears– had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”
  • Gen 32:10 : 10 I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
  • Gen 33:11 : 11 Please take my present that was brought to you, for God has been generous to me and I have all I need.” When Jacob urged him, he took it.
  • Gen 36:7 : 7 because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.
  • Eccl 2:7 : 7 I purchased male and female slaves, and I owned slaves who were born in my house; I also possessed more livestock– both herds and flocks– than any of my predecessors in Jerusalem.
  • Ezek 39:10 : 10 They will not need to take wood from the field or cut down trees from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons. They will take the loot from those who looted them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them, declares the Sovereign LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 24:35
    79%

    35“The LORD has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • Job 1:3
    79%

    3His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.

  • Gen 30:39-42
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    79%

    39When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

    40Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks.

    41When the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches.

    42But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob.

  • Gen 26:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent.

    14He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.

  • Gen 32:14-16
    3 verses
    77%

    14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

    15thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

    16He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants,“Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”

  • Gen 12:16
    76%

    16and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

  • Gen 30:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

    29“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied,“and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

    30Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”

  • Gen 31:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.

    18He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

  • Gen 32:5
    74%

    5I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

  • Job 42:12
    73%

    12So the LORD blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

  • Gen 28:3
    73%

    3May the Sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

  • Gen 31:43
    73%

    43Laban replied to Jacob,“These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today or the children to whom they have given birth?

  • Gen 36:7
    72%

    7because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.

  • Num 31:44-45
    2 verses
    72%

    4436,000 cattle,

    4530,500 donkeys,

  • 2 Sam 12:2
    71%

    2The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

  • Gen 31:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

    10“Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

  • Gen 31:12
    71%

    12Then he said,‘Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

  • Num 31:34
    71%

    3461,000 donkeys,

  • Gen 46:6
    70%

    6Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.

  • Gen 30:7
    70%

    7Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son.

  • Gen 30:12
    70%

    12Then Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob another son.

  • Gen 45:23
    70%

    23To his father he sent the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, food, and provisions for his father’s journey.

  • Gen 33:1
    70%

    1Jacob Meets Esau Jacob looked up and saw that Esau was coming along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.