Genesis 30:43
The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
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Genesis 13:2Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 26:13The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
Genesis 30:30For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
Genesis 31:42Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
Genesis 32:14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Genesis 36:7For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear 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 →