Genesis 31:16
For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
Genesis 31:16 in other translations
| BSB | Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.” |
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| WEB | For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.” |
| ASV | For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. |
| YLT | for all the wealth which God hath taken away from our father, it is ours, and our children's; and now, all that God hath said unto thee--do.' |
| DARBY | For all the wealth that God has taken from our father is ours and our children's; and now whatever God has said to thee do. |
| BBE | For the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and our children's; so now, whatever God has said to you, do. |
| Webster | For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then whatever God hath said to thee, do. |
What does Genesis 31:16 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 31:1-21
The affairs of these families are related very minutely, while (what are called) the great events of states and kingdoms at that period, are not mentioned. The Bible teaches people the common duties of life, how to serve God, how to enjoy the blessings he bestows, and to do good in the various stations and duties of life. Selfish men consider themselves robbed of all that goes past them, and covetousness will even…
Genesis 31:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 31:16
- Genesis 31:9
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
- Genesis 30:35-31:1
And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks. And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 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. …
- Psalms 45:10
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
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Context
- Genesis 31:15
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
- Genesis 31:16
For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
- Genesis 31:17
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
Genesis 31:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque toda la riqueza que Dios ha quitado á nuestro padre, nuestra es y de nuestros hijos: ahora pues, haz todo lo que Dios te ha dicho. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car toutes les richesses que Dieu a ôtées à notre père sont à nous et à nos enfants. Et maintenant, fais tout ce que Dieu t’a dit. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn aller Reichtum, den Gott unserem Vater entrissen hat, uns gehört er und unseren Kindern. So tue nun alles, was Gott zu dir geredet hat. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sed Deus tulit opes patris nostri, et eas tradidit nobis, ac filiis nostris: unde omnia quæ præcepit tibi Deus, fac. |