7 Yet your father has deceived me and achanged my wages bten times, but God cdid not allow him to hurt me.
8 If he said thus: ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said thus: a‘The streaked shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked.
9 So God has ataken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.
10 “And it happened, at the time when the flocks conceived, that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the flocks were streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted.
11 Then athe Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying, ‘Jacob.’ And I said, ‘Here I am.’
12 And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted; for aI have seen all that Laban is doing to you.
13 I am the God of Bethel, awhere you anointed the pillar and where you made a vow to Me. Now barise, get out of this land, and return to the land of your family.’ ”
14 Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, a“Is there still any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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Definitions of words in Genesis 31:9:
Father {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Father {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
So {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
So {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
So {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
God {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Other definition entries containing Genesis 31:9:
Jacob (1) {I.S.B.E.}
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