Genesis 30:41
When the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches.
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- Gen 30:31-4010 verses89%
31So Laban asked,“What should I give you?”“You don’t need to give me a thing,” Jacob replied,“but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:
32Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.
33My integrity will testify for me later on. When you come to verify that I’ve taken only the wages we agreed on, if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.”
34“Agreed!” said Laban,“It will be as you say.”
35So that day Laban removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted(all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care of his sons.
36Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible.
38Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink.
39When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
40Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks.
- Gen 30:42-432 verses87%
42But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob.
43In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.
- Gen 31:8-103 verses81%
8If he said,‘The speckled animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said,‘The streaked animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring.
9In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
10“Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
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12Then he said,‘Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.
- Gen 29:9-102 verses72%
9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.
10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.
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4So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.
- Gen 29:2-32 verses70%
2He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
3When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.
- Gen 30:2-54 verses70%
2Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed,“Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
3She replied,“Here is my servant Bilhah! Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”
4So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with her.
5Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.
- Gen 32:14-163 verses70%
14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
16He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants,“Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”
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43Laban replied to Jacob,“These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today or the children to whom they have given birth?
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7Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son.
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20The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.
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7because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.
- Gen 31:18-192 verses68%
18He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.
19While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.
- Gen 31:33-342 verses68%
33So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.
34(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.
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25Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.
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51“Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob.
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10Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
- Gen 41:2-32 verses68%
2seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.
3Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river.
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71He took him away from following the mother sheep, and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his chosen nation.
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31The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.