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Genesis 30:32

in Genesis 30

Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

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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This verse in Genesis 30

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

I will pass through all thy flock - צאן tson, implying, as we have before seen, all smaller cattle, such as sheep, goats, etc. All the speckled and spotted cattle - שה seh, which we translate cattle, signifies the young either of sheep or goats, what we call a lamb or a kid. Speckled, נקד nakod, signifies interspersed with variously colored spots.

This site's exposition

You do not need to give me anything

on Genesis 30:31-33

Jacob asks for no wage but the speckled or spotted animals and the dark-colored lambs. The wage is set by what the flocks bear from this day on. He offers his own honesty as the audit. Any unmarked beast found among his own counts as stolen.

This site's exposition

every speckled or spotted sheep

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read the next chapter, at 31:5 to 13, as showing a miracle, with Jacob's method given to him by God. Adam Clarke notes that the word for flocks takes in sheep and goats together. John Wesley says the marked animals among them were few.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Hebrew Questions on Genesis · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 32 and 33.) I will pass through all your flock today: separate from it all the variegated and discolored animals: and all the animals of one color will be lambs and the variegated and discolored ones will be goats, they will be my reward: and my justice will be answered to me the next day, when my reward comes before you: everything that is not variegated and discolored among the goats and lambs, will be considered as theft to me, and so on.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This, he thinks, will be a most effectual way both to prevent Laban's cheating him and to secure himself from being suspected of cheating Laban. Some think he chose this colour because in Canaan it was generally most desired and delighted in; their shepherds in Canaan are called Nekohim ( Amos i.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But it is evident from the next chapter (Ge 31:5-13) that there was something miraculous and that the means he had employed had been suggested by a divine intimation.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אֶֽעֱבֹ֨רlet me pass

    ʾeevorH5674 →556 times

  • בְּכָל־in all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • צֹֽאנְךָ֜flock your

    tzonekhaH6629 →274 times

  • הַיּ֗וֹםthis day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הָסֵ֨רI will remove

    haserH5493 →299 times

  • מִשָּׁ֜םfrom there

    mishamH8033 →834 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • שֶׂ֣ה׀sheep

    sehH7716 →47 times

  • נָקֹ֣דspeckled

    nakodH5348 →9 times

  • וְטָל֗וּאand spotted

    vetalu'H2921 →8 times

  • וְכָל־and every

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • שֶׂה־sheep

    seh-H7716 →47 times

  • חוּם֙dark

    chumH2345 →4 times

  • בַּכְּשָׂבִ֔יםamong the lambs

    bakesavimH3775 →13 times

  • וְטָל֥וּאand [the] spotted

    vetalu'H2921 →8 times

  • וְנָקֹ֖דand [the] speckled

    venakodH5348 →9 times

  • בָּעִזִּ֑יםamong the goats

    baizimH5795 →74 times

  • וְהָיָ֖הand it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • שְׂכָרִֽי׃wage[s] my

    sekhariH7939 →28 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

6 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 31:10

    When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 13:1

      If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,

    • Genesis 20:6

      Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did…

    • 1 Kings 3:5

      One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”

    • Numbers 12:6

      He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.

    • Genesis 30:39

      they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

  • Through

    Genesis 30:35

    That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 31:9

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

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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