Genesis 30:43
So the man increased exceedingly, and had many flockes, and maide seruantes, and men seruants, and camels and asses.
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Genesis 13:2And Abram was very rich in cattell, in siluer and in golde.
Genesis 26:13And the man waxed mightie, and stil increased, till he was exceeding great,
Genesis 30:30For the litle, that thou haddest before I came, is increased into a multitude: and the Lord hath blessed thee by my comming: but nowe when shall I trauell for mine owne house also?
Genesis 31:42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Izhak had bene with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe emptie: but God behelde my tribulation, and the labour of mine hads, and rebuked thee yester night.
Genesis 32:14Two hundreth shee goates and twenty hee goates, two hundreth ewes and twentie rammes:
Genesis 36:7For their riches were so great, that they could not dwell together, and the lande, wherein they were strangers, coulde not receiue them because of their flockes.
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 →