Genesis 31:8

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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.

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  • Gen 30:32 : 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.

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  • Gen 31:9-12
    4 verses
    86%

    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.

    11In the dream the angel of God said to me,‘Jacob!’‘Here I am!’ I replied.

    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.

  • Gen 30:28-35
    8 verses
    83%

    28He 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.

    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?”

    31So 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:

    32Let 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.

    33My 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.”

    34“Agreed!” said Laban,“It will be as you say.”

    35So that day Laban removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted(all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care of his sons.

  • Gen 31:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    5There 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.

    6You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could,

    7but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.

  • Gen 30:37-43
    7 verses
    81%

    37But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible.

    38Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink.

    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.

    43In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

  • Gen 31:41-43
    3 verses
    73%

    41This 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!

    42If 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.”

    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 31:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!

    16Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

  • Job 31:20
    71%

    20whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,

  • Gen 31:38-39
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    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.

    39Animals 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.

  • Gen 32:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    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 29:15
    70%

    15Then Laban said to Jacob,“Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.”

  • Gen 31:1
    70%

    1Jacob’s Flight from Laban Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining,“Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich at our father’s expense!”

  • Gen 31:18
    69%

    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 47:16
    69%

    16Then Joseph said,“If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.”

  • Job 39:12
    69%

    12Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?

  • Gen 33:13
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    13But 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.

  • Job 31:39
    69%

    39if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners,

  • Gen 33:8
    69%

    8Esau then asked,“What did you intend by sending all these herds to meet me?” Jacob replied,“To find favor in your sight, my lord.”

  • Gen 44:32
    68%

    32Indeed, 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.’

  • Gen 46:32
    68%

    32The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’

  • Gen 32:8
    68%

    8“If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought,“then the other camp will be able to escape.”