Genesis 31:8-10
1599 Geneva Bible
8 If he thus said, The spotted shall be thy wages, then all the sheep bare spotted: and if he said thus, the parti-colored shall be thy reward, then bare all the sheep parti-colored.
9 Thus hath [a]God taken away your father’s [b]substance, and given it me.
10 ¶ For in ramming time I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the he goats leaped upon the she goats, that were parti-colored with little and great spots spotted.
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- Genesis 31:9 This declareth that the thing, which Jacob did before, was by God’s commandment, and not through deceit.
- Genesis 31:9 Or, cattle.
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