Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
- BSB Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
- ESV Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.
- NKJV So God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.
- NASB So God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
- NLT In this way, God has taken your father’s animals and given them to me.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Gen 31:1He heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. From that which was our father’s, has he gotten all this wealth.”
- Gen 31:16For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”
- Prov 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
- Esth 8:1–2On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.
- Ps 50:10For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
- Matt 20:15Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
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