Genesis 31:38

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 30:27 : 27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."
  • Gen 30:30 : 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?"
  • Exod 23:26 : 26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
  • Deut 28:4 : 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your animals, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
  • Ezek 34:2-4 : 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep? 3 You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep. 4 You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have you ruled over them.

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  • Gen 31:39-42
    4 verses
    81%

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

    40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

    41These twenty years have I 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."

  • Gen 30:28-33
    6 verses
    77%

    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 cattle 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. Everyone that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."

  • Job 31:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

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

  • Gen 31:37
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    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.

  • Gen 32:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

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

  • Gen 31:5-10
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    73%

    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.

    9Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

    10It happened at the time that the flock conceive, 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.

  • Gen 33:13
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    13Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

  • 1 Sam 25:7
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    7Now I have heard that you have shearers: your shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there anything missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel.

  • Gen 31:12
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 8:4
    70%

    4Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.

  • Gen 27:9
    70%

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

  • Deut 2:7
    70%

    7For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.

  • 1 Sam 25:16
    70%

    16they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

  • Job 31:39
    70%

    39If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, Or have caused the owners of it to lose their life:

  • Gen 44:32
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    32For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'

  • Prov 27:26
    70%

    26The lambs are for your clothing, And the goats are the price of a field.

  • Judg 19:19
    70%

    19Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything.

  • Gen 29:7
    70%

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

  • Deut 29:5
    70%

    5I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your foot.

  • Ezek 34:17
    69%

    17As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.

  • Gen 30:42
    69%

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

  • Ps 50:9
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    9I have no need for a bull from your stall, Nor male goats from your pens.

  • Exod 22:30
    69%

    30You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it me.

  • Gen 31:30
    69%

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

  • Gen 46:32
    69%

    32These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

  • Job 30:1
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    1"But now those who are younger than I, have me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

  • Num 31:44
    69%

    44and thirty-six thousand oxen,

  • Gen 31:32
    69%

    32With whoever you find your gods, he shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.

  • Gen 31:28
    69%

    28and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

  • Gen 30:39
    69%

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

  • Prov 27:23
    68%

    23Know well the state of your flocks, And pay attention to your herds: