thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
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thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
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Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
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(32-16) thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thirty milch camels with their colts,.... Milch camels were…
Thirty milch camels with their colts,.... Milch camels were in great esteem in the eastern countries; their milk being, as Aristotle (y) and Pliny (z) say, the sweetest of all milk:
forty kine and ten bulls; one bull to ten cows; the same proportion as in the goats and rams:
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twenty she asses and ten foals; and supposing thirty colts belonging to the camels; the present consisted of five hundred and eighty head of cattle: a large number to spare out of his flocks and herds, that he had acquired in six years' time; and showed a generous disposition as well as prudence, to part with so much in order to secure the rest.
(y) Hist. Animal. l. 6. c. 26. (z) Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 41. & 28. 9.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 15. Ten bulls] The Syriac and Vulgate have…
Verse 15. Ten bulls] The Syriac and Vulgate have twenty; but ten is a sufficient proportion to the forty kine. By all this we see that Jacob was led to make restitution for the injury he had done to his brother. Restitution for injuries done to man is essentially requisite if in our power. He who can and will not make restitution for the wrongs he has done, can have no claim even on the mercy of God.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Camels. The milk of these animals is most exquisite,…
Camels. The milk of these animals is most exquisite, being mixed with three parts water. Pliny, Natural History xi. 41, who says, "They give milk till they be with young again." The Arabs feed chiefly on their milk and flesh. (St. Jerome, contra Jor. ii.) The value of all these presents, may give us some idea of the prodigious wealth which God had heaped upon Jacob in the space of six years! (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).