Genesis 30:43
Thus did the man break forth, exceedingly,—thus came he to have flocks in abundance, and maid-servants, and men-servants and camels and asses.
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Genesis 13:2Now, Abram, was very rich,—in cattle, in silver and in gold.
Genesis 26:13So the man waxed great,—and went on and on waxing great until that he had waxed exceeding great.
Genesis 30:30For it was, little, that thou hadst—before I came and then it brake forth into multitude, and Yahweh blessed thee at my every step. Now, therefore, when am, I, also to do something for my own house?
Genesis 31:42But that the God of my father—The God of Abraham, and the Dread of Isaac—Proved to be mine, Surely even now, empty, hadst thou let me go? My humiliation and the wearying toil of my hands, God had seen, And therefore gave sentence last night!
Genesis 32:14She-goats, two hundred; And he-goats, twenty; Ewes, two hundred; And rams, twenty;
Genesis 36:7For their substance had become too great for them to dwell together,—neither could the land of their sojournings sustain them, because of their herds,
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 →