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.
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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.
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And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
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And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
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Passages linked to Genesis 31:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 13:1 If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
- Genesis 20:6 God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.
- Genesis 28:12 He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
- Genesis 30:39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
- Genesis 31:24 God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
- Numbers 12:6 He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
- 1 Kings 3:5 In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 31:10 And it came to pass at the…
Gen 31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle [were] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
Ver. 10-12. I saw in a dream, &c.] Of divine dreams, such as this was, {See Trapp on "Gen 20:3"}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. Were marked with spots, like hail in colour…
i.e. Were marked with spots, like hail in colour and proportion, as the word signifieth.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Angel of God spake unto me in…
And the Angel of God spake unto me in a dream,.... In the same dream before related, and to direct him to observe what was presented to him, and to confirm what he saw, and lead him to the design and use of it. This was not a created angel, but the eternal one, the Son of God, and who is afterwards called God, and to whom Jacob had made a vow, which he would never have done to an angel; but to God only, as Ben Melech observes:
saying, Jacob; and I said, here am I; the Angel called him by his name, to which he answered, and signified that he was ready to attend to whatsoever he should say to him.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. Saw in a dream — In Gen_30:37-43, we…
10. Saw in a dream — In Gen_30:37-43, we have the human side of Jacob’s procedure. We there see his artifice and cunning. Here is another view, not at all in conflict with that, but designed to show that all Jacob’s tricks were as nothing without supernatural interference. God interposed to favour Jacob, not because of his guile or cunning, still less to sanction any thing of the kind as an example for others. Probably such dreams had come repeatedly during the last four or five years, and at the end of the sixth year of his independent service he received the revelation of Gen_31:11-13.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. in a dream] Cf. Gen_20:3. It is thus…
10. in a dream] Cf. Gen_20:3. It is thus revealed to Jacob (Gen_31:10-12) that the birth, in such numbers, of spotted and parti-coloured young is due to God’s goodness towards him, and in order to requite Laban (Gen_31:12).
grisled] i.e. “gray” (Fr. gris). This Old English word, now generally spelt “grizzled,” occurs also in Zec_6:3; Zec_6:6. Compare, in Bacon’s Essays, “pusled” for “puzzled.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) Rams.—Heb., he-goats. The Authorised Version has made the…
(10) Rams.—Heb., he-goats. The Authorised Version has made the alteration, because the word rendered “cattle” is really sheep (and so in Gen_31:8; Gen_31:12, &c.); but, like our word flock, it also included goats.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And it came to pus at the time that…
And it came to pus at the time that the cattle conceived (this obviously goes back to the commencement of the six years" service), that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams he-goats, from an unused root, to be ready, perhaps because ready and prompt for fighting (Gesenius, sub voce)which leaped (literally, Heir up) upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled. The grisled ( beruddim, from barad, to scatter hail) were spotted animals, as if they had been sprinkled with hail, not a fifth sort in addition to the four already mentioned (Rosenm but the same as the teluim of Gen_30:35. (Kalisch) Wordsworth observes that the English term grisled, from the French word grele, hail, is a literal translation of the Hebrew. Gesenius connects with the Hebrew root the words pardov, pardus, leopard (so called from its spots), and the French broder, to embroider. The LXX understand the to include both sheep and goats, and translate oiJ tragoi kai oiJ kriointev ejpi tabata kai tav aijgav.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Jacob continues his story to his wives Leah and Rachel.
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Once at the time of breeding season
"During the breeding season"
mating with the flock
Here "flock" represents only the female goats. AT: "mating with the female goats of the flock" (See: Synecdoche)
were striped, speckled, and spotted
"had stripes, little spots, and big spots"
angel of God
Possible meanings are 1) God himself appeared as a man or 2) one of God's messengers appeared. Since the phrase is not well understood, it is best to simply translate it as "the angel of God," using the normal word that you use for "angel."
I said
"And I answered"
Here I am
"Yes, I am listening" or "Yes, what is it?" See how you translated this in Genesis 22:1.
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goat
angel
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