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Genesis 31:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked. "

Genesis 31:8

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6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.

9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

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.

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Related Verses

Genesis 30:32

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"I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire."

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Genesis 31:1

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"And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory."

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Genesis 30:33

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"So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me."

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Genesis 30:35

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"And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons."

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Leviticus 25:7

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"And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat."

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Isaiah 30:23

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"Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures."

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Genesis 31:1

"And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory."

Genesis 31:2

"And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before."

Genesis 31:3

"And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee."

Genesis 31:4

"And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,"

Genesis 31:5

"And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me."

Genesis 31:6

"And ye know that with all my power I have served your father."

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