The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
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The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
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And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
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And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
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- Genesis 31:9-12 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me. During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled. The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’ He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
- Genesis 31:38 “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
- Genesis 31:40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
- Genesis 31:42 Unless 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.”
- Exodus 12:35-36 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing. Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, received.
Or, received.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods,…
Gen 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Ver. 39. Ring-straked.] With a round streak, or ring, about their legs, as if they were gartered.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The flocks conceived; Heb. were heated, i.e. inflamed or…
The flocks conceived; Heb. were heated, i.e. inflamed or excited, and disposed to conceive, and this in a more than ordinary manner by the Divine disposal. The event hath some foundation in nature, because of the great power of imagination; and there are divers instances in many authors, both of women and of beasts, who either by the strong fancying, or by the actual and frequent contemplation, of some certain objects, have brought forth young ones exactly of the same colour and complexion, as one did an Ethiopian, &c. But the providence of God was the principal cause of this effect, without which the productions of that kind would neither have been so many nor so certain. This policy of Jacob’s could scarcely be excused from deceit and injustice, if it were not manifest that it was done by the direction and authority of the sovereign Lord of all estates, Gen 31:9,11, &c., who may take them from one, and give them to another, as it pleaseth him; who also observed Laban’s injustice, and gave to Jacob no more than he abundantly deserved from Laban.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the man increased exceedingly,.... Jacob grew very rich:
And the man increased exceedingly,.... Jacob grew very rich:
and had much cattle; the greater part of Laban's flocks brought forth speckled, spotted, and brown cattle, which, according to agreement, were Jacob's:
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and maidservants, and menservants; which he got to take care of his household affairs, and to assist him in keeping his flocks:
and camels, and asses; for his flocks increasing so very much, he sold many of his sheep at a good price, as Jarchi observes, and with it bought camels and asses; and these were very fit for his use, when he should be obliged or think fit to remove into his own country, and which he was meditating, and had a direction from the Lord for, as in the following chapter.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the flocks conceived (ut supra) before the rods,…
And the flocks conceived (ut supra) before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. The fact is said to have been frequently observed that, particularly in the case of sheep, whatever fixes their attention in copulation is marked upon the young. That Jacob believed in the efficacy of the artifice he adopted is apparent; but the multiplication of Parti-colored animals it will be safer to ascribe to Divine blessing than to human craft.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 The flocks bred
The flocks bred
"The animals of the flocks conceived" or "The animals mated"
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produced striped, speckled, and spotted young
"gave birth to babies with stripes and spots"
Jacob separated
It can be made explicit that this happened over several years. AT: "During the several years following, Jacob separated" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
face toward
"look toward"
he separated out his flocks for himself alone
"he set his flocks apart"
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flocks
lamb
face
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