Genesis 31:16
But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
15Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?
17Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.
Cross References
Genesis 30:35And he separated the name day the she goats, and the sheep, and the he goats, and the rams of divers colours, and spotted: and all the flock of one colour, that is, of white and black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons.
Genesis 32:14Two hundred she goats, 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 →