Genesis 30:42

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in; so the feebler belonged to Laban, and the stronger to Jacob.

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In The King James Version

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

In Context

41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

43And the man increased exceedingly, and he had many flocks, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:12And he said, Lift up now thy eyes and see, all the rams which leap upon the flocks are ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled; for I have seen all that Laban doth unto thee.

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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