Genesis 30:43
In this way Jacob became an extremely rich man with large flocks, and many male and female slaves, camels, and donkeys.
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Genesis 13:2Abram was very rich, having many herds of livestock and a great deal of silver and gold.
Genesis 26:13He became a rich man, and his wealth steadily increased until he was very rich.
Genesis 30:30You hardly had anything before I arrived, but now you have so much! The Lord has blessed you through what I've done. When am I going to be able to provide for my own family?”
Genesis 31:42If it weren't for the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the awesome God of Isaac, who took care of me, you would have dismissed me with nothing. But God saw my suffering, how hard I worked, and he condemned you last night.”
Genesis 32:14200 female goats, 20 male goats; 200 ewes, 20 rams;
Genesis 36:7He did this because the land they were living in couldn't support both of them with all their livestock.
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 →