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Genesis 30:33

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So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when thou shalt come concerning my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.

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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This verse in Genesis 30

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

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 what the flocks bear from this day on. He offers his own honesty as the audit, and any unmarked beast found among his own counts as stolen.

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 words behind it

21 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.

  • וְעָֽנְתָה־and it will testify

    veanetah-H6030 →331 times

  • בִּ֤יfor me

    bi

  • צִדְקָתִי֙righteousness my

    tzidkatiH6666 →157 times

  • בְּי֣וֹםon a day

    beyomH3117 →2304 times

  • מָחָ֔רin future time

    macharH4279 →

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • תָב֥וֹאyou will come

    tavo'H935 →2568 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • שְׂכָרִ֖יwage[s] my

    sekhariH7939 →28 times

  • לְפָנֶ֑יךָ<to> before you

    lefaneikhaH6440 →2123 times

  • כֹּ֣לall

    kolH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • אֵינֶנּוּ֩not [is] it

    ʾeinenuH369 →789 times

  • נָקֹ֨דspeckled

    nakodH5348 →9 times

  • וְטָל֜וּאand spotted

    vetalu'H2921 →8 times

  • בָּֽעִזִּ֗יםamong the goats

    baizimH5795 →74 times

  • וְחוּם֙and dark

    vechumH2345 →4 times

  • בַּכְּשָׂבִ֔יםamong the lambs

    bakesavimH3775 →13 times

  • גָּנ֥וּב[is] stolen

    ganuvH1589 →40 times

  • ה֖וּאit

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • אִתִּֽי׃with me

    ʾitiH854 →929 times

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

Related verses

9 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Samuel 26:23May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed.4 works2 Samuel 22:21The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.3 worksExodus 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.3 worksIsaiah 59:12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:3 worksPsalms 37:6He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.3 worksGenesis 31:37You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.3 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
Genesis 31:32If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.3 worksJoshua 22:24But in fact we have done this for fear that in the future your descendants might say to ours, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?2 worksProverbs 11:6The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the faithless are trapped by their own desires.2 works

The walk

8 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

    Psalms 37:6

    He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 54:17

      No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the…

    • Job 11:17

      Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

    • Isaiah 58:8

      Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

    • Micah 7:8–9

      Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

    • Matthew 13:43

      Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 22:21

    The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 8:32

      then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Psalms 24:4

      He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

  • Through

    Isaiah 59:12

    For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:

    it leads to

    • Ezra 9:6

      and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Creation of Light, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Creation of Light, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Genesis: the study guide →Read Genesis 30 →

This page draws on 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) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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