The Book of Genesis-Verse by Verse

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Genesis 30:30 (KJV) For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

 

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Genesis 30:31 (KJV) And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

 

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Genesis 30:32 (KJV) I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

 

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Genesis 30:33 (KJV) So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

 

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Genesis 30:34 (KJV) And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

 

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Genesis 30:35 (KJV) And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

 

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Genesis 30:36 (KJV) And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

 

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Genesis 30:37 (KJV) And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

 

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Genesis 30:38 (KJV) And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

 

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Genesis 30:39 (KJV) And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

 

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Genesis 30:40 (KJV) And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

 

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Genesis 30:41 (KJV) And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

 

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Genesis 30:42 (KJV) But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

 

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Genesis 30:43 (KJV) And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

 

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Genesis 31:1 (KJV) And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.

 

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Genesis 31:2 (KJV) And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

 

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Genesis 31:3 (KJV) And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

 

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Genesis 31:4 (KJV) And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,

 

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Genesis 31:5 (KJV) And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.

 

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Genesis 31:6 (KJV) And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.