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Genesis 30:42

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but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

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Genesis 30:42 in other translations

but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

Genesis 30:42 · American Standard Version

Genesis 30:42 in context

  1. 40Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.
  2. 41Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive among the rods;
  3. 42but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
  4. 43The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.