Genesis 31:9 “Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.”

Genesis 31:9

Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Thus hath God taken away your fathers substance, and giuen it me.

Darby Translation

And God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.

Young's Literal Translation

and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me.

Bible in Basic English

So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

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Cross references

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

Genesis 31:1 Genesis 31:16 Proverbs 13:22 Psalm 50:10 Matthew 20:15 Esther 8:1

Genesis 31:1 · BSB

Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”

Genesis 31:16 · BSB

Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

Proverbs 13:22 · BSB

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.

Psalm 50:10 · BSB

for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.

Matthew 20:15 · BSB

Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Esther 8:1 · BSB

That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.

10When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

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