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Jacob Flees from Laban

Genesis 31:9

In 11 translations

BSB
Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
KJV
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
WEB
Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
ASV
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
LSV
and God takes away the substance of your father, and gives to me.
YLT
and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me.
DBY
And God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.Elohim
DRC
And God hath taken your father’s substance, and given it to me.
GNV
Thus hath God taken away your fathers substance, and giuen it me.
JPS
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
LXXE
So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיַּצֵּ֧ל אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־מִקְנֵ֥ה אֲבִיכֶ֖ם וַיִּתֶּן־לִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἀφείλετο ὁ Θεὸς πάντα τὰ κτήνη τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν, καὶ ἔδωκέ μοι αὐτά.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 31:1Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
  • Genesis 31:16Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
  • Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
  • Matthew 20:15Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
  • Esther 8:1–2That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her. The king removed the signet ring he…
  • Psalms 50:10for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.

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