Genesis 30:42

But when the animals were weak, he did not put them in. In this way the weaker became Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob.

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

In Context

41Whenever the stronger animals of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, so that they might conceive among the rods.

43So the man increased in wealth exceedingly, and had large flocks, and male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:12And he said, ‘Look! All the male goats which are mating are striped, speckled, and piebald: for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

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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