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Genesis 31:8

American Standard Version

If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked.

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Genesis 31:8 in other translations

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

Genesis 31:8 · World English Bible

Genesis 31:8 in context

  1. 6And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
  2. 7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
  3. 8If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked.
  4. 9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
  5. 10And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled.