"Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given {them} to me." — Genesis 31:9

Genesis 31:9 · KJV

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

— Genesis 31:9

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

Verse 10

And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle {were} ringstraked, speckled, and grisled. {rams: or, he goats}

Genesis 31 — Context

And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

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

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

And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, {saying}, Jacob: And I said, Here {am} I.

Cross References

Genesis 31:1

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.

Genesis 31:16

For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that {is} ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

Proverbs 13:22

A good {man} leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner {is} laid up for the just.

Matthew 20:15

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

Psalms 50:10

For every beast of the forest {is} mine, {and} the cattle upon a thousand hills.

Esther 8:1-2

On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he {was} unto her.