Genesis 30:35
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| Overview - Genesis 30 | |
| 1 | Rachel, in grief for her barrenness, gives Bilhah her maid unto Jacob. |
| 5 | Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali. |
| 9 | Leah gives Zilpah her maid, who bears Gad and Asher. |
| 14 | Reuben finds mandrakes, with which Leah buys her husband's company of Rachel. |
| 17 | Leah bears Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah. |
| 22 | Rachel bears Joseph. |
| 25 | Jacob desires to depart. |
| 27 | Laban detains him on a new agreement. |
| 37 | Jacob's policy, whereby he becomes rich. |
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Genesis 30:35 (King James Version)
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.
- he removed
- From this it appears, that, as Jacob had agreed to take all the parti-coloured for his wages, and was now only beginning to act upon this agreement, and consequently had as yet no right to any of the cattle, therefore Laban separated from the flock all such cattle as Jacob might afterwards claim in consequence of his bargain, leaving only the black and white with Jacob.
- the hand
- 31:9