Genesis 31:16

For all the wealth that God has taken from our father is ours and our children's; and now whatever God has said to thee do.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

In Context

15Are we not reckoned of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has even constantly devoured our money.

17And Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels,

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Cross References

Genesis 30:35And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the brown among the lambs, and gave [them] into the hand of his sons.

Genesis 32:14two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats; two hundred ewes, and twenty rams;

Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:2-17

Jacob's Departure. ( b. c. 1739.) 1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 3 And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5 And said unto them, I see your father's… Read the whole commentary →

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