Genesis 31:39
What was torn by beasts I did not bring to you. Instead, I bore the loss of it. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
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In Context
40There I was; in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and I went without sleep.
Cross References
Exodus 22:9For every dispute about something, whether it is an ox, a donkey, a sheep, clothing, or any other missing thing about which one says, “This belongs to me,” the claim of both parties must come before the judges. The man whom the judges find guilty must pay double to his neighbor.
Exodus 22:12But if it was stolen from him, the other must make restitution to the owner for it.
Leviticus 22:8He must not eat anything found dead or killed by wild animals, by which he would defile himself. I am Yahweh.
Luke 2:8There were shepherds in that region who were staying in the fields, guarding their flock at night.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:37-43
36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? 37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. 38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beasts I… Read the whole commentary →