Genesis 31:8

Old Testament Law (Torah) ASV (1901)

If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked.

Genesis 31:8 — American Standard Version

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Context — Genesis 31

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5and said unto them, I see your father`s countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.

6And ye know that will all my power I have served your father.

7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

8If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked.

9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

10And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled.

11And the angel of God said unto me in the dream, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.

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