Genesis 30:36 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 30:36

34 And Laban said, “Oh, that it were according to your word!”

35 So he removed that day the male goats that were ^aspeckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

36 Then he put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

37 Now ^aJacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods.

38 And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink.

Verse Comparison: Genesis 30:36

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American Standard Version
and he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

Amplified® Bible
And he set [a distance of] three days' journey between himself and Jacob; and Jacob was then left in care of the rest of Laban's flock.

Contemporary English Version
Then Laban made Jacob keep the rest of the sheep and goats at a distance of three days' journey.

Darby English Version
And he put three days' journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.

Good News Bible
and then went away from Jacob with this flock as far as he could travel in three days. Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flocks.

King James Version
And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

New American Standard Bible
And he put {a distance of} three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

New International Version
Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban's flocks.

New King James Version
Then he put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
And he put a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

Revised Standard Version
and he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob; and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.

Young's Literal Translation
and setteth a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban.

New English Translation
Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey,¹ while² Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.

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