Genesis 31:38 BSB — MannaFest

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13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
זֶה֩	zeh	this	H2088 →
עֶשְׂרִ֨ים	'es.Rim	twenty	H6242 →
שָׁנָ֤ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
אָנֹכִי֙	'a.no.Khi	I	H595 →
עִמָּ֔ךְ	'i.Makh	[have been] with you	H5973 →
רְחֵלֶ֥יךָ	re.che.Lei.kha	ewes your	H7353 →
וְעִזֶּ֖יךָ	ve.'i.Zei.kha	and female goats your	H5795 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
שִׁכֵּ֑לוּ	shi.Ke.lu	they have miscarried	H7921 →
וְאֵילֵ֥י	ve.'ei.Lei	and [the] rams of	H352 →
צֹאנְךָ֖	tzo.ne.Kha	flock your	H6629 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
אָכָֽלְתִּי׃	'a.Khal.ti	I have eaten	H398 →

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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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
Exodus 23:26
No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 7:14
  You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.
- Deuteronomy 28:4
  The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
- Job 5:26
  You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
- Job 21:10
  Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
- Isaiah 65:20
  No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails…
Through
Deuteronomy 28:4
The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
leads to
- Proverbs 10:22
  The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.
- Genesis 49:25
  by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and…
- Deuteronomy 7:13
  He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds…

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 30:27But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”Exodus 23:26No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.Ezekiel 34:2–4“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock?Genesis 30:30Indeed, you had very little before my arrival, but now your wealth has increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I set foot. But now, when may I also provide for my own household?”Deuteronomy 28:4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.Genesis 27:44Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—Genesis 30:39they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.Genesis 31:41Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!Zechariah 11:16For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

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