Genesis 32:14

14 ij hundred she gootes ad xx he gootes: ij hundred shepe and xx rammes:

Genesis 32:14 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 32:14

Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes,
and twenty rams.
] And it seems this proportion of one he goat to ten she goats, and of one ram to ten ewes, is a proper one, and what has been so judged in other times and countries ^F24.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Varro de rustica, l. 2. c. 3. apud Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 43. col. 439. &c. 53. col. 648.

Genesis 32:14 In-Context

12 Thou saydest that thou woldest surely do me good and woldest make mi seed as the sonde of the see which can not be nombred for multitude.

13 And he taried there that same nyghte and toke of that which came to hande a preasent vnto Esau his brother:

14 ij hundred she gootes ad xx he gootes: ij hundred shepe and xx rammes:

15 thyrtye mylch camels with their coltes: xl kyne ad x bulles: xx she asses ad foles

16 and delyuered them vnto his seruauntes euery drooue by them selues ad sayde vnto them: goo forth before me and put a space betwyxte euery drooue.