Genesis 30:43

And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maidservants and menservants, and camels and asses.

Revised Version 1895

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 flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:2And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 26:13And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great:

Genesis 30:30For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

Genesis 31:42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

Genesis 32:14two hundred she-goats and twenty he-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 sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.

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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