Chuàngshìjì 32:15

15 Nǎi zǎi zǐ de luòtuo sān shí zhǐ gè daì zhe zǎi zǐ , mǔ niú sì shí zhǐ , gōngniú shí zhǐ , mǔ lü èr shí pǐ , lü jū shí pǐ .

Chuàngshìjì 32:15 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 32:15

Thirty milch camels with their colts
Milch camels were in great esteem in the eastern countries; their milk being, as Aristotle ^F25 and Pliny ^F26 say, the sweetest of all milk: forty kine and ten bulls;
one bull to ten cows; the same proportion as in the goats and rams: twenty she asses and ten foals;
and supposing thirty colts belonging to the camels; the present consisted of five hundred and eighty head of cattle: a large number to spare out of his flocks and herds, that he had acquired in six years' time; and showed a generous disposition as well as prudence, to part with so much in order to secure the rest.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 Hist. Animal. l. 6. c. 26.
F26 Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 41. & 28. 9.

Chuàngshìjì 32:15 In-Context

13 Dàng yè , Yǎgè zaì nàli zhù sù , jiù cóng tā suǒyǒude wù zhōng ná lǐwù yào sòng gĕi tā gēge Yǐsǎo .

14 Mǔ shānyáng èr bǎi zhǐ , gōng shānyáng èr shí zhǐ , mǔ miányáng èr bǎi zhǐ , gōng miányáng èr shí zhǐ ,

15 Nǎi zǎi zǐ de luòtuo sān shí zhǐ gè daì zhe zǎi zǐ , mǔ niú sì shí zhǐ , gōngniú shí zhǐ , mǔ lü èr shí pǐ , lü jū shí pǐ .

16 Mĕi yàng gè fèn yī qún , jiāo zaì púrén shǒu xià , jiù duì púrén shuō , nǐmen yào zaì wǒ qiántou guò qù , shǐ qún qún xiàng lí , yǒu kòngxián de dìfang .

17 Yòu fēnfu jìn xiān zǒu de shuō , wǒ gēge Yǐsǎo yùjiàn nǐde shíhou , wèn nǐ shuō , nǐ shì nǎ jiā de rén , yào wàng nǎli qù , nǐ qiántou zhèxie shì shuí de ,