Genesis 30:39

World English Bible (2000)

The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

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  • Gen 31:9-9 : 9 Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me. 10 It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled. 11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.' 12 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
  • Gen 31:38 : 38 "These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.
  • Gen 31:40 : 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
  • Gen 31:42 : 42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
  • Exod 12:35-36 : 35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing. 36 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

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  • Gen 30:30-38
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    30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

    31 He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

    32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

    33 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."

    34 Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word."

    35 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

    36 He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

    37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

    38 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

  • Gen 30:40-43
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    40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.

    41 It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

    42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

    43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • Gen 31:8-12
    5 verses
    85%

    8 If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.

    9 Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.

    10 It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.

    11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'

    12 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

  • Gen 29:9-10
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    9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

    10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

  • Gen 31:4
    72%

    4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

  • Gen 32:14-16
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    14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

    15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

    16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.

    3 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.

  • Gen 30:5
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    5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 31:43
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    43 Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

  • Gen 31:18-19
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    69%

    18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

    19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

  • Gen 29:6-7
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    6 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."

    7 He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."

  • Gen 30:7
    69%

    7 Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

  • Gen 31:33-34
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    33 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

    34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them.

  • Gen 38:27
    69%

    27 It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.

  • Num 31:44
    69%

    44 and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,

  • Gen 31:38
    69%

    38 "These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.

  • Gen 30:10
    69%

    10 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 31:25
    68%

    25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

  • Job 31:20
    68%

    20 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;