Genesis 30:42
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
Genesis 30:42 in other translations
| BSB | But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob. |
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| WEB | but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. |
| ASV | but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. |
| YLT | and when the flock is feeble, he doth not set them; and the feeble ones have been Laban's, and the strong ones Jacob's. |
| DARBY | but when the sheep were feeble, he put them not in; so the feeble were Laban's, and the strong Jacob's. |
| BBE | But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's. |
| Webster | But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. |
What does Genesis 30:42 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 30:42 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Genesis 30:41
And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
- Genesis 30:42
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
- Genesis 30:43
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
Genesis 30:42 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y cuando venían las ovejas tardías, no las ponía: así eran las tardías para Labán, y las tempranas para Jacob. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais quand les bêtes étaient chétives, il ne les mettait pas; et les chétives étaient à Laban, et les vigoureuses à Jacob. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | wenn aber das Vieh schwächlich war, legte er sie nicht hin. Also wurden die schwächlichen dem Laban und die kräftigen dem Jakob. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quando vero serotina admissura erat, et conceptus extremus, non ponebat eas. Factaque sunt ea quæ erant serotina, Laban: et quæ primi temporis, Jacob. |