Genesis 30:31-43
1599 Geneva Bible
31 Then he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob answered, Thou shalt give me nothing at all: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will return, feed, and keep thy sheep.
32 I will pass through all thy flocks this day, and [a]separate from them all the sheep with little spots and great spots, and all [b]black lambs among the sheep, and the great spotted, and little spotted among the goats: [c]and it shall be my wages.
33 So shall my [d]righteousness answer for me hereafter, when it shall come for my reward before thy face, and everyone that hath not little or great spots among the goats, and black among the sheep, the same shall be [e]theft with me.
34 Then Laban said, Go to, would God it might be according to thy saying.
35 Therefore [f]he took out the same day the he goats that were parti-colored and with great spots, and all the she goats with little and great spots, and all that had white in them, and all the [g]black among the sheep, and put them in the keeping of his sons.
36 And he set three days journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob kept the rest of Laban’s sheep.
37 ¶ Then Jacob [h]took rods of green poplar, and of hazel, and of the chestnut tree, and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear in the rods.
38 Then he put the rods, which he had pilled, in the gutters and watering troughs, when the sheep came to drink, before the sheep: (for they were in heat, when they came to drink.)
39 And the sheep [i]were in heat before the rods, and afterward brought forth young of parti-color, and with small and great spots.
40 And Jacob parted these lambs, and turned the faces of the flock towards those lambs parti-colored, and all manner of black, among the sheep of Laban: so he put his own flock by themselves, and put them not with Laban’s flock.
41 And in every ramming time of the [j]stronger sheep, Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the gutters, that they might conceive before the rods.
42 But when the sheep were feeble, he put them not in: and so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
43 So the man increased exceedingly, and had many flocks, and maid servants, and men servants, and camels, and asses.
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- Genesis 30:32 Or, separate thou.
- Genesis 30:32 Or, rid.
- Genesis 30:32 That which shall hereafter be thus spotted.
- Genesis 30:33 God shall testify for my righteous dealing by rewarding my labors.
- Genesis 30:33 Or, counted theft.
- Genesis 30:35 Or, Laban.
- Genesis 30:35 Or, red or brown.
- Genesis 30:37 Jacob herein used no deceit: for it was God’s commandment as he declareth in Gen. 31:9, 11.
- Genesis 30:39 Or, received.
- Genesis 30:41 As they which took the ram about September and brought forth about March: so the feebler in March, and lamb in September.
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