Genesis 30:43
So the man increased in wealth exceedingly, and had large flocks, and male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.
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Genesis 13:2Abram was now very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 26:13The man became rich, and grew richer and richer until he became very wealthy; for he had many flocks, and many herds, and a great household; so that the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 30:30for it was little which you had before I came, but now it has greatly increased, since the Lord has blessed you wherever I went. But now, when am I to provide for my own house as well?”
Genesis 31:42Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty. But God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and he rebuked you last night.”
Genesis 32:14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Genesis 36:7For their possessions were too many for them to live together; and the land where they sojourned could not support them because of their cattle.
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 →