Genesis 30:42
“But when the cattel were feeble, hee put them not in: so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iacobs.”
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Genesis 30:42 Context
40And Iacob did separate the lambes, and set the faces of the flockes toward the ring-straked, and all the browne in the flocke of Laban: and he put his owne flocks by themselues, and put them not vnto Labans cattell. 41And it came to passe whensoeuer the stronger cattell did conceiue, that Iacob layd the rods before the eyes of the cattell in the gutters, that they might conceiue among the rods. 42But when the cattel were feeble, hee put them not in: so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iacobs. 43And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattell, and maydseruants, and men seruants, and camels, and asses.
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But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
- King James Version
but when the flock was feeble, he did not put {them} in; so the feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
but when the sheep were feeble, he put [them] not in; so the feeble were Laban's, and the strong Jacob's.
- Darby Bible
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
- Webster's Bible
but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
- World English Bible
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.
- Youngs Literal Bible
but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible