Genesis 30:43

The man became very prosperous. He had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

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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 when the feebler animals in the flock came, he did not put the sticks in front of them. So the feebler animals were Laban's, and the stronger were Jacob's.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:2Now Abram was very rich in animals, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 26:13The man became rich, and grew more and more until he became very great.

Genesis 30:30For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I worked. Now when will I provide for my own household also?”

Genesis 31:42Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the one Isaac fears, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my oppression and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”

Genesis 32:14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Genesis 36:7He did this because their possessions were too many for them to stay together. The land where they had settled could not support them because of their livestock.

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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