Genesis 30:43

And the man became very rich, and he had many cattle, and oxen, and servants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

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In The King James Version

And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

In Context

42But he did not put them in indiscriminately whenever the cattle happened to bring forth, but the unmarked ones were Laban’s, and the marked ones Jacob’s.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:2And Abram was very rich in cattle, and silver, and gold.

Genesis 26:13And the man was exalted, and advancing he increased, till he became very great.

Genesis 30:30For it was little thou hadst before my time, and it is increased to a multitude, and the Lord God has blessed thee since my coming; now then, when shall I set up also my own house?

Genesis 31:42Unless I had the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

Genesis 32:14And he slept there that night, and took of the gifts which he carried with him, and sent out to Esau his brother,

Genesis 36:7For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojourning could not bear them, because of the abundance of their possessions.

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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