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Genesis 30:43 KJV
Genesis · chapter 30 · verse 43
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.Genesis 30:43 · King James Version
Genesis 30:43 in context
41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
42But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
43And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- maidservantsshiphchâha female slaveH8198 →
- exceedinglymᵉʼôdproperly, vehemenceH3966 →
- menservantsʻebeda servantH5650 →
- increasedpâratsto break outH6555 →
- cattletsôʼna collective name for a flockH6629 →
- camelsgâmâla camelH1581 →
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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…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 37-43