Genesis 31:39

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:10-13 : 10 If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is injured or is carried away without anyone seeing it, 11 then there will be an oath to the LORD between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay. 12 But if it was stolen from him, he will pay its owner. 13 If it is torn in pieces, then he will bring it for evidence, and he will not have to pay for what was torn.
  • Exod 22:31 : 31 “You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.
  • Lev 22:8 : 8 He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 17:34-35 : 34 David replied to Saul,“Your servant has been a shepherd for his father’s flock. Whenever a lion or bear would come and carry off a sheep from the flock, 35 I would go out after it, strike it down, and rescue the sheep from its mouth. If it rose up against me, I would grab it by its jaw, strike it, and kill it.
  • Luke 2:8 : 8 The Shepherds’ Visit Now there were shepherds nearby living out in the field, keeping guard over their flock at night.
  • John 10:12-13 : 12 The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them. 13 Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.

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  • Job 31:38-39
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    12But if it was stolen from him, he will pay its owner.

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  • Job 31:19-21
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    19If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,

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    28The first disappeared and I said,“He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.

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    30Now 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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    70%

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    70%

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    2 verses
    70%

    12May the LORD judge between the two of us, and may the LORD vindicate me over you, but my hand will not be against you.

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    70%

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    69%

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    69%

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    69%

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    69%

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    69%

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