Genesis 32:14
12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- 200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,
- KJV
- Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
- WEB
- two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
- ASV
- two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
- DARBY
- two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats; two hundred ewes, and twenty rams;
- BLB
- Two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams.
- ÅB
- to hundre geiter og tyve bukker, to hundre sauer og tyve værer,
- OTB
- to hundre geiter og tjue bukker, to hundre sauer og tjue værer,
- B1930
- to hundre gjeter og tyve bukker, to hundre får og tyve værer,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 1:3
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:18
But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Read in contextJob 42:12
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Read in contextGenesis 31:16
For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
Read in contextGenesis 31:9
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Read in context1 Samuel 25:2
And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
Read in contextGenesis 30:43
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
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