Genesis 30:43
And the man increases very exceedingly, and has many flocks, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and donkeys.
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Genesis 13:2and Abram [is] exceedingly wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 26:13and the man is great, and goes on, going on and becoming great, until he has been very great,
Genesis 30:30for [it is] little which you have had at my appearance, and it breaks forth into a multitude, and YHWH blesses you at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for my own house?”
Genesis 31:42unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now you had sent me away empty; God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and reproves last night.”
Genesis 32:14female goats two hundred, and male goats twenty, ewes two hundred, and rams twenty,
Genesis 36:7for their substance was more abundant than to dwell together, and the land of their sojournings was not able to bear them because of 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 →