Parallel Verses
Amplified
Thus God has taken away the flocks of your father and given them to me.
New American Standard Bible
Thus God has
King James Version
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Holman Bible
God has taken away your father’s herds and given them to me.
International Standard Version
"So God has taken away your father's livestock and has given them to me.
A Conservative Version
Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
American Standard Version
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Bible in Basic English
So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.
Darby Translation
And God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Julia Smith Translation
And God will take away the cattle of your father and will give them to me.
King James 2000
Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
God has taken away your father's livestock and given [them] to me.
Modern King James verseion
And God has taken away the flocks of your father, and has given them to me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thus hath God taken away your father's cattle and given them me.
NET Bible
In this way God has snatched away your father's livestock and given them to me.
New Heart English Bible
Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.
The Emphasized Bible
So hath God stripped away the herds of your father, and given them to me.
Webster
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
World English Bible
Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.
Youngs Literal Translation
and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me.
Interlinear
'elohiym
Natsal
'ab
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 31:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob Flees From Laban
8 If he said, ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled [young]; and if he said, ‘The streaked shall be your wages,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked [young]. 9 Thus God has taken away the flocks of your father and given them to me. 10 And it happened at the time when the flock conceived that I looked up and saw in a dream that the rams which mated [with the female goats] were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 31:1
Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken away everything that was our father’s, and from what belonged to our father he has acquired all this wealth and honor.”
Genesis 31:16
Surely all the riches which God has taken from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has told you to do, do it.”
Esther 8:1-2
On that day King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) gave the
Psalm 50:10
“For every beast of the forest is Mine,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for [the hands of] the righteous.
Matthew 20:15