30 For it was little H4592 which thou hadst before I H6440 came, and it is now increased H6555 unto a multitude; H7230 and the LORD H3068 hath blessed H1288 thee since my coming: H7272 and now when H4970 shall I provide H6213 for mine own house H1004 also?
31 And he said, H559 What shall I give thee? H5414 And Jacob H3290 said, H559 Thou shalt not give H5414 me any thing: H3972 if thou wilt do H6213 this thing H1697 for me, I will again H7725 feed H7462 and keep H8104 thy flock: H6629
32 I will pass H5674 through all thy flock H6629 to day, H3117 removing H5493 from thence all the speckled H5348 and spotted H2921 cattle, H7716 and all the brown H2345 cattle H7716 among the sheep, H3775 and the spotted H2921 and speckled H5348 among the goats: H5795 and of such shall be my hire. H7939
33 So shall my righteousness H6666 answer H6030 for me in time H3117 to come, H4279 when it shall come H935 for my hire H7939 before thy face: H6440 every one H3605 that is not speckled H5348 and spotted H2921 among the goats, H5795 and brown H2345 among the sheep, H3775 that shall be counted stolen H1589 with me.
34 And Laban H3837 said, H559 Behold, I would it might be H3863 according to thy word. H1697
35 And he removed H5493 that day H3117 the he goats H8495 that were ringstraked H6124 and spotted, H2921 and all the she goats H5795 that were speckled H5348 and spotted, H2921 and every one that had some white H3836 in it, and all the brown H2345 among the sheep, H3775 and gave H5414 them into the hand H3027 of his sons. H1121
36 And he set H7760 three H7969 days' H3117 journey H1870 betwixt himself and Jacob: H3290 and Jacob H3290 fed H7462 the rest H3498 of Laban's H3837 flocks. H6629
37 And Jacob H3290 took H3947 him rods H4731 of green H3892 poplar, H3839 and of the hazel H3869 and chesnut tree; H6196 and pilled H6478 white H3836 strakes H6479 in them, and made the white H3836 appear H4286 which was in the rods. H4731
38 And he set H3322 the rods H4731 which he had pilled H6478 before H5227 the flocks H6629 in the gutters H7298 in the watering H4325 troughs H8268 when the flocks H6629 came H935 to drink, H8354 that they should conceive H3179 when they came H935 to drink. H8354
39 And the flocks H6629 conceived H3179 before the rods, H4731 and brought forth H3205 cattle H6629 ringstraked, H6124 speckled, H5348 and spotted. H2921
40 And Jacob H3290 did separate H6504 the lambs, H3775 and set H5414 the faces H6440 of the flocks H6629 toward H413 the ringstraked, H6124 and all the brown H2345 in the flock H6629 of Laban; H3837 and he put H7896 his own flocks H5739 by themselves, and put H7896 them not unto Laban's H3837 cattle. H6629
41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger H7194 cattle H6629 did conceive, H3179 that Jacob H3290 laid H7760 the rods H4731 before the eyes H5869 of the cattle H6629 in the gutters, H7298 that they might conceive H3179 among the rods. H4731
42 But when the cattle H6629 were feeble, H5848 he put them not in: H7760 so the feebler H5848 were Laban's, H3837 and the stronger H7194 Jacob's. H3290
43 And the man H376 increased H6555 exceedingly, H3966 H3966 and had much H7227 cattle, H6629 and maidservants, H8198 and menservants, H5650 and camels, H1581 and asses. H2543
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Commentary on Genesis 30 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 30
In this chapter we have an account of the increase,
Gen 30:1-13
We have here the bad consequences of that strange marriage which Jacob made with the two sisters. Here is,
Gen 30:14-24
Here is,
Gen 30:25-36
We have here,
Gen 30:37-43
Here is Jacob's honest policy to make his bargain more advantageous to himself than it was likely to be. If he had not taken some course to help himself, it would have been a bad bargain indeed, which he knew Laban would never consider, or rather would be well pleased to see him a loser by, so little did Laban consult any one's interest but his own. Now Jacob's contrivances were,