Genesis 31:38
“I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 30:27 : 27 But Laban said to him,“If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me on account of you.”
- 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?”
- Exod 23:26 : 26 No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
- Deut 28:4 : 4 Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
- Ezek 34:2-4 : 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them– to the shepherds:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock? 3 You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep! 4 You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled over them.
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- Gen 31:39-424 verses81%
39 Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night.
40 I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.
41 This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you– fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!
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 30:28-336 verses77%
28 He added,“Just name your wages– I’ll pay whatever you want.”
29 “You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied,“and how well your livestock have fared under my care.
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?”
31 So Laban asked,“What should I give you?”“You don’t need to give me a thing,” Jacob replied,“but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:
32 Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.
33 My integrity will testify for me later on. When you come to verify that I’ve taken only the wages we agreed on, if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.”
- Job 31:19-202 verses74%
19 If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,
20 whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,
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37 When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? Set it here before my relatives and yours, and let them settle the dispute between the two of us!
- Gen 32:14-152 verses73%
14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
- Gen 31:5-106 verses73%
5 There he said to them,“I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
6 You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could,
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.
9 In 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.
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13 But Jacob said to him,“My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.
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7 Now I hear that they are shearing sheep for you. When your shepherds were with us, we neither insulted them nor harmed them the whole time they were in Carmel.
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12 Then 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.
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4 Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.
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9 Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.
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7 All along the way I, the LORD your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wilderness. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”
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16 Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.
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39 if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners,
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32 Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying,‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’
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26 the lambs will be for your clothing, and the goats will be for the price of a field.
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19 We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing.”
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7 Then Jacob said,“Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.”
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5 I have led you through the wilderness for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.
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17 “‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.
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42 But 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.
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9 I do not need to take a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds.
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30 You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.
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30 Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”
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32 The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’
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1 Job’s Present Misery“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.
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44 36,000 cattle,
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32 Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.”(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)
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28 You didn’t even allow me to kiss my daughters and my grandchildren goodbye. You have acted foolishly!
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39 When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
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23 Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, set your mind on your herds,