Genesis 31:9
New International Version
So God has taken away your father’s livestock and has given them to me.

New Living Translation
In this way, God has taken your father’s animals and given them to me.

English Standard Version
Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.

Berean Standard Bible
Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

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

New King James Version
So God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.

New American Standard Bible
So God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

NASB 1995
“Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

NASB 1977
“Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

Legacy Standard Bible
Thus God has delivered your father’s livestock and given them to me.

Amplified Bible
Thus God has taken away the flocks of your father and given them to me.

Christian Standard Bible
God has taken away your father’s herds and given them to me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
God has taken away your father’s herds and given them to me.”

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And God separated from the possessions of your father and he gave them to me.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

Contemporary English Version
That's how God has taken sheep and goats from your father and given them to me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So God has taken away your father's livestock and has given them to me.

Good News Translation
God has taken flocks away from your father and given them to me.

International Standard Version
"So God has taken away your father's livestock and has given them to me.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

Literal Standard Version
and God takes away the substance of your father, and gives to me.

Majority Standard Bible
Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

New American Bible
So God took away your father’s livestock and gave it to me.

NET Bible
In this way God has snatched away your father's livestock and given them to me.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father, and given them to me.

New Heart English Bible
Thus God has taken away your father�s livestock and given them to me.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me.

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Context
Jacob Flees from Laban
8If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring. 9Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me. 10When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.…

Cross References
Genesis 31:1
Now Jacob heard that Laban's sons were saying, "Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father's expense."

Genesis 31:10
When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

Genesis 31:16
Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you."


Treasury of Scripture

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

Genesis 31:1,16
And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory…

Esther 8:1,2
On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her…

Psalm 50:10
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

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Genesis 31
1. Jacob, displeased with the envy of Laban and his sons, departs secretly.
19. Rachel steals her father's household gods.
22. Laban pursues after him, and complains of the wrong.
34. Rachel's plan to hide the images.
36. Jacob's complaint of Laban.
43. The covenant of Laban and Jacob at Galeed.














Verse 9. - Thus - literally, and (as the result of this) - God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. In ascribing to God what he had himself effected by (so-called) fraud, this language of Jacob appears to some inexcusable (Kalisch); in passing over his own stratagem in silence Jacob has been charged with not telling the whole truth to his wives (Keil). A more charitable consideration of Jacob's statement, however, discerns-in it an evidence of his piety, which recognized and gratefully acknowledged that not his own "consummate cunning, 'but Jehovah s watchful care had enabled him to outwit the dishonest craft of Laban (Rosenmüller, Ainsworth, Bush, Candlish, Murphy).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Thus God
אֱלֹהִ֛ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

has taken away
וַיַּצֵּ֧ל (way·yaṣ·ṣêl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5337: To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver

your father’s
אֲבִיכֶ֖ם (’ă·ḇî·ḵem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1: Father

livestock
מִקְנֵ֥ה (miq·nêh)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4735: Something bought, property, livestock, acquisition

and given
וַיִּתֶּן־ (way·yit·ten-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

[them] to me.
לִֽי׃ (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew


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