Genesis 31:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • Gen 30:32 : 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.

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  • Gen 31:9-12
    4 verses
    86%

    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.

    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
    83%

    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."

    34Laban said, "Behold, I desire it to 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 31:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Gen 30:37-43
    7 verses
    81%

    37Jacob 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.

    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.

    40Jacob 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.

    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.

    43The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • Gen 31:41-43
    3 verses
    73%

    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."

    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 31:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

    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."

  • Job 31:20
    71%

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

  • Gen 31:38-39
    2 verses
    71%

    38These 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.

    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.

  • Gen 32:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty she-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 29:15
    70%

    15Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

  • Gen 31:1
    70%

    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 31:18
    69%

    18and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 47:16
    69%

    16Joseph said, "Give your cattle; and I will give you food for your cattle, if money fails."

  • Job 39:12
    69%

    12Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, And gather the grain of your threshing floor?

  • Gen 33:13
    69%

    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.

  • Job 31:39
    69%

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

  • Gen 33:8
    69%

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

  • Gen 44:32
    68%

    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.'

  • Gen 46:32
    68%

    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.'

  • Gen 32:8
    68%

    8and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."