Genesis 30:43

So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and asses.

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And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

In Context

42But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:2Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

Genesis 26:13And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;

Genesis 30:30For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

Genesis 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

Genesis 32:14Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred females and twenty males from the sheep,

Genesis 36:7For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:38-43

Jacob's Ingenious Policy. ( b. c. 1745.) 37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. 39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. 40 And Jacob did separate… Read the whole commentary →

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