Monday, July 22, 2013

Genesis 30:43

And the man increased exceedingly [prospered], and had  much cattle [large flocks], and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses [donkeys].

Geneva Bible - So the man increased exceedingly, and had many flocks, and maidservants,
and menservants, and camels and asses.

Genesis 30:42

But when the cattle were  feeble, he put [them] not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the  stronger Jacob's.

Geneva Bible - But when the sheep were feeble, he put them not in; and so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

Genesis 30:41

And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle [livestock] did conceive, that  Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that  they might conceive among the rods.

Geneva Bible - And in every ramming time of the (m) stronger sheep, Jacob laid the rods
before the eyes of the sheep in the gutters, that they might conceive before the
rods.
(m) As they which took the ram about September and brought forth about March; so the feebler in
March and lamb in September.

Genesis 30:40

And Jacob did  separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the
ringstraked [streaked], and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his
own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto [with] Laban's cattle.

Geneva  Bible - And Jacob parted these lambs, and turned the faces of the flock towards those
lambs party colored, and all manner of black, among the sheep of Laban; so he
put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not with Laban’s flock

Genesis 30:39

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought  forth cattle ringstraked [streaked], speckled, and spotted.

Geneva Bible - And the sheep (*) were in heat before the rods, and afterward brought forth
young of party color, and with small and great spots.
(*) Or, conceived.

Genesis 30:38

And he set the rods which he  had pilled [peeled] 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.

Geneva Bible - Then he put the rods, which he had pilled, in the gutters and watering
troughs, when the sheep came to drink, before the sheep. (For they were in heat,
when they came to drink.)

Genesis 30:37

And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel  and chesnut tree; and pilled [peeled] white strakes [strips] in them, and made the white  appear which [was] in the rods.

Geneva Bible - Then Jacob (l) took rods of green poplar, and of hazel, and of the chestnut tree, and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear in the rods.
(l) Jacob herein used no deceit, for it was God's commandment as he declareth in Genesis 31:9-11 .

Genesis 30:36

And he set three days journey betwixt [between] himself and Jacob:  and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

Geneva Bible:  And he set three days journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob kept the rest of Laban’s sheep.