Genesis 30:39 BSB — MannaFest

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9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֶּחֱמ֥וּ	vai.ye.che.Mu	and they mated	H3179 →
הַצֹּ֖אן	ha.Tzon	the flock	H6629 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַמַּקְל֑וֹת	ha.mak.Lot	the branches	H4731 →
וַתֵּלַ֣דְןָ	va.te.Lad.na	and they bore	H3205 →
הַצֹּ֔אן	ha.Tzon	the flock	H6629 →
עֲקֻדִּ֥ים	'a.ku.Dim	striped [ones]	H6124 →
נְקֻדִּ֖ים	ne.ku.Dim	speckled [ones]	H5348 →
וּטְלֻאִֽים׃	u.te.lu.'Im	and spotted [ones]	H2921 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen…
leads to
- Psalms 31:7
  I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion, for You have seen my affliction; You have known the anguish of my soul.
- Isaiah 8:13
  The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.
- Genesis 31:29
  I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
- Genesis 31:53
  May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
- Genesis 31:24
  But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
Through
Genesis 31:40
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
leads to
- Hebrews 13:7
  Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
- 1 Peter 5:2–4
  Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God’s will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;
- Exodus 2:19–22
  “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Genesis 31:38I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.Genesis 31:9–12Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.Genesis 31:40As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.Genesis 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”Exodus 12:35–36Furthermore, the Israelites acted on Moses’ word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing.Genesis 31:10When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

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