Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
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Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
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Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
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Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
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Passages linked to Genesis 31:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 31:1 Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”
- Genesis 31:16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”
- Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
- Esther 8:1-2 On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her. The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
- Psalms 50:10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
- Matthew 20:15 Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain This declareth that the thing, which Jacob did before,…
This declareth that the thing, which Jacob did before, was by God’s commandment, and not through deceit.
Or, cattle.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle…
Gen 31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.
Ver. 9. Thus God hath taken away, &c.] He is the true proprietary, and gives and takes away these outward things at pleasure; as Hannah hath it. {1Sa 2:7} And, "promotion cometh neither from the east nor west," saith David; "nor yet from the south," {Psa 75:6} where the warm sunshine is: much less from the north (for, Ab Aquilone nihil boni); "but God is the judge; he puts down" Laban "and sets up" Jacob; {Psa 75:7} he spoiled the Egyptians, and enriched the Israelites with their jewels; {Exo 12:36} which yet proved a snare to them, perhaps, in the matter of the golden calf; as riches always do, when sent to men by God’s providence only, and not out of his favour, as here to Jacob, and by virtue of the promise.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And it came to pass, at the time that…
And it came to pass, at the time that the cattle conceived,.... Whether in spring or in autumn cannot be said, for it seems this was twice a year; this probably was at the beginning of the six years' servitude, or just before the agreement was made between Laban and Jacob, and was an instruction to the latter how to make his bargain with the former:
that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream; in a vision of the night, so things were represented to his fancy and imagination:
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and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked,
speckled, and grisled; from whence he might conclude, that the cattle they leaped upon would bring forth the like, and so be a direction to him to make his agreement with Laban to have such for his hire; not that the rams in the flock were really of those colours, for they were all white, but so they were represented to Jacob in the vision, to suggest to him, that such would be produced by them; and it is not improbable by the artifice Jacob was directed to, and took, that the ewes, when they came to the watering troughs to drink, upon seeing the party coloured rods in the water, these made such an impression upon their imaginations, that they fancied the rams that leaped upon them were of those colours, and so conceived and brought forth the like. Here is another colour mentioned, not taken notice of before, at least by this name, "grisled"; it stands in the place of "spotted", and seems to be the same with that, and signified such as had spots on them like hailstones, and distinguishes them from the speckled: the speckled were such as were white with black spots, these such as were black, and had white spots like hail.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain God hath taken away the cattle of your father…
God hath taken away the cattle of your father and given them to me - Thus the righteous God paid Jacob for his hard service out of Laban's estate; as afterwards he paid the seed of Jacob for their service of the Egyptians with their spoils.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Gen 31:9. God hath taken away the cattle of…
Gen 31:9. God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me — Thus the righteous God paid Jacob for his hard service out of Laban’s estate, as he afterward paid the seed of Jacob for the service of the Egyptians with the spoils of that people.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thus literally, and (as the result of this)God hath…
Thus literally, and (as the result of this)God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. In ascribing to God what he had himself effected by (so-called) fraud, this language of Jacob appears to some inexcusable (Kalisch); in passing over his own stratagem in silence Jacob has been charged with not telling the whole truth to his wives (Keil). A more charitable consideration of Jacob"s statement, however, discerns-in it an e vide nce of his piety, which recognized and gratefully acknowledged that not his own "consummate cunning, "but Jehovah s watchful care had enabled him to outwit the dishonest craft of Laban (Rosenm Ainsworth, Bush, Candlish, Murphy).
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