Genesis 31:9
In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 31:1 : 1 Jacob’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 31:16 : 16 Surely 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.”
- Esth 8:1-2 : 1 The King Acts to Protect the Jews On that same day King Ahasuerus gave the estate of Haman, that adversary of the Jews, to Queen Esther. Now Mordecai had come before the king, for Esther had revealed how he was related to her. 2 The king then removed his signet ring(the very one he had taken back from Haman) and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther designated Mordecai to be in charge of Haman’s estate.
- Ps 50:10 : 10 For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.
- Prov 13:22 : 22 A good person leaves an inheritance for his grandchildren, but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous.
- Matt 20:15 : 15 Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
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- Gen 31:5-84 verses86%
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.
8If 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 31:10-123 verses83%
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 30:28-358 verses78%
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.
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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.”
- Gen 30:38-392 verses76%
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.
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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 31:29-302 verses74%
29I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night,‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’
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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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 31:41-433 verses74%
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 31:37-393 verses73%
37When 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!
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 30:41-422 verses72%
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.
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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.”
- Josh 24:3-42 verses72%
3but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and brought him into the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,
4and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir, while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
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11Please 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.
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16Then Joseph said,“If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.”
- Gen 32:15-162 verses72%
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.”
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27Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty.
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35But Isaac replied,“Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”
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22As one who is above your brothers, I give to you the mountain slope, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”
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9Go 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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30He replied,“You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well.”
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4May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”