Genesis 31:9
Good News Translation
God has taken flocks away from your father and given them to me.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father, and given them to me.

Contemporary English Version
That's how God has taken sheep and goats from your father and given them to me.

New American Bible
So God took away your father’s livestock and gave it to me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.

Genesis 31:1,16 But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and being enriched by his substance is become great. . . .

Esther 8:1,2 On that day king Assuerus gave the house of Aman, the Jews' enemy, to queen Esther, and Mardochai came in before the king. For Esther had confessed to him that he was her uncle. . . .

Psalm 50:10 For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.

Proverbs 13:22 The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.

Matthew 20:15 Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good?

Context
Jacob Flees from Laban
8If at any time, he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white one for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones. 9And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.10For after the time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep, that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.…
Cross References
Genesis 31:1
But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and being enriched by his substance is become great.

Genesis 31:10
For after the time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep, that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.

Genesis 31:16
But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.

Genesis 31:8
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