Genesis 30:43
And the man increased very greatly, and had a multitude of flocks, and handmaids, and servants, and camels, and asses.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
42And (so) the late ones were Laban’s, and the prime ones Jacob’s.
Cross References
Genesis 13:2And Abram was exceeding strong in cattle, in silver, and in gold;
Genesis 26:13And the man increased, and went on multiplying and increasing, until he had increased greatly.
Genesis 30:30For thou hadst few before me, and they have increased into a multitude: and the Lord hath blessed thee for my sake. But now, what shall I do also for my (own) house?
Genesis 31:42Unless the God of my fathers, the God of Abraham, and He whom Izhak hath feared, had been my helper, even now thou hadst sent me away empty: but my labour, and the travail of my hands, have been manifest before the Lord, and He rebuked thee in the evening.
Genesis 32:14And he housed there that night, and took of that which came to his hand, an offering for Esau his brother;
Genesis 36:7Because their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their habitation could not sustain them with regard to 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 →