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Genesis 31:9

World English Bible

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

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Genesis 31:9 in other translations

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

Genesis 31:9 · American Standard Version

Genesis 31:9 in context

  1. 7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
  2. 8If 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.
  3. 9Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
  4. 10During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
  5. 11The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’