Genesis 31:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 31:1 : 1 He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."
  • Gen 31:16 : 16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."
  • Esth 8:1-2 : 1 On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews' enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her. 2 The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
  • Ps 50:10 : 10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
  • Prov 13:22 : 22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 31:5-8
    4 verses
    86%

    5and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

    6You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

    7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.

    8If 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.

  • Gen 31:10-12
    3 verses
    83%

    10It 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.

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

    12He 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 30:28-35
    8 verses
    78%

    28He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."

    29He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

    30For 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?"

    31He 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.

    32I 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.

    33So 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."

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

    35That 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.

  • Gen 31:16
    77%

    16For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

  • Gen 30:38-39
    2 verses
    76%

    38He 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.

    39The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

  • Gen 31:18
    75%

    18and 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.

  • Gen 31:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    29It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'

    30Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

  • Gen 31:1
    74%

    1He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."

  • Gen 31:41-43
    3 verses
    74%

    41These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

    42Unless 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."

    43Laban 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 31:37-39
    3 verses
    73%

    37Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

    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.

    39That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

  • Gen 30:41-42
    2 verses
    72%

    41It 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;

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

  • Gen 33:8
    72%

    8Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

  • Josh 24:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

    4I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

  • Gen 33:11
    72%

    11Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.

  • Gen 47:16
    72%

    16Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone."

  • Gen 32:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

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

    16He 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 21:27
    71%

    27Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

  • Gen 27:35
    71%

    35He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."

  • Gen 48:22
    71%

    22Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."

  • Gen 27:9
    71%

    9Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

  • Gen 21:30
    71%

    30He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

  • Gen 28:4
    71%

    4and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."