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Genesis 31:43

in Genesis 31

But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom they have borne?

KJV

And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

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This verse in Genesis 31

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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. 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): These daughters are my daughters. When he cannot excuse what he has done, he does, in effect, own what he should have done; he should have treated them as his own, but he had counted them as strangers,

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And Laban answered and said unto Jacob,....

The words behind it

26 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.

  • וַיַּ֨עַןand he answered

    vaiyaanH6030 →331 times

  • לָבָ֜ןLaban

    lavanH3837 →55 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • אֶֽל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יַעֲקֹ֗בJacob

    yaakoH3290 →350 times

  • הַבָּנ֨וֹתthe daughters

    habanotH1323 →588 times

  • בְּנֹתַ֜י[are] daughters my

    benotaiH1323 →588 times

  • וְהַבָּנִ֤יםand the children

    vehabanimH1121 →4930 times

  • בָּנַי֙[are] children my

    banaiH1121 →4930 times

  • וְהַצֹּ֣אןand the flock

    vehatzonH6629 →274 times

  • צֹאנִ֔י[is] flock my

    tzoniH6629 →274 times

  • וְכֹ֛לand all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • אַתָּ֥הyou

    ʾatahH859 →1094 times

  • רֹאֶ֖ה[are] seeing

    roehH7200 →1300 times

  • לִי־[belongs] to <the> me

    li-

  • ה֑וּאit

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וְלִבְנֹתַ֞יand for daughters my

    velivnotaiH1323 →588 times

  • מָֽה־what?

    mah-H4100 →752 times

  • אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֤הwill I do

    ʾeesehH6213 →2628 times

  • לָאֵ֙לֶּה֙for these

    laelehH428 →746 times

  • הַיּ֔וֹםthis day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • א֥וֹor

    ʾoH176 →321 times

  • לִבְנֵיהֶ֖ןfor children their

    livneihenH1121 →4930 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhom

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יָלָֽדוּ׃they have borne

    yaladuH3205 →496 times

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

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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 John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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