Genesis 31:9

So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

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In The King James Version

Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

In Context

8If he should say thus, The speckled shall be thy reward, then all the cattle would bear speckled; and if he should say, The white shall be thy reward, then would all the cattle bear white.

10And it came to pass when the cattle conceived and were with young, that I beheld with mine eyes in sleep, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-colored spots.

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Cross References

Genesis 30:39So the cattle conceived at the rods, and the cattle brought forth young speckled, and streaked and spotted with ash-colored spots.

Genesis 31:16All the wealth and the glory which God has taken from our father, it shall be ours and our children’s; now then do whatsoever God has said to thee.

Proverbs 13:22A good man shall inherit children’s children; 1 And the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just. 1

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 →

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