Genesis 30:39
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis 30:39 in other translations
| BSB | they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted. |
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| WEB | The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted. |
| ASV | And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted. |
| YLT | and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted ones. |
| DARBY | And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. |
| BBE | And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour. |
| Webster | And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted. |
What does Genesis 30:39 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 30:25-43
The fourteen years being gone, Jacob was willing to depart without any provision, except God's promise. But he had in many ways a just claim on Laban's substance, and it was the will of God that he should be provided for from it. He referred his cause to God, rather than agree for stated wages with Laban, whose selfishness was very great. And it would appear that he acted honestly, when none but those of the colours…
Genesis 30:39 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 30:39
- Exodus 12:35-36
And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
- Genesis 31:40
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
- Genesis 31:38
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
- Genesis 31:42
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
- Genesis 31:9-12
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled. And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I. And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
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Context
- Genesis 30:38
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
- Genesis 30:39
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
- Genesis 30:40
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.
Genesis 30:39 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y concebían las ovejas delante de las varas, y parían borregos listados, pintados y salpicados de diversos colores. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | le bétail entrait en chaleur devant les branches, et il faisait des petits, rayés, marquetés, et tachetés. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Herde wurde brünstig vor den Stäben, und die Herde gebar gestreifte, gesprenkelte und gefleckte. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Factumque est ut in ipso calore coitus, oves intuerentur virgas, et parerent maculosa, et varia, et diverso colore respersa. |