Genesis 30:42 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴² but for the feebler of the flock he did not lay them there, so the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴² But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴² But when the sheep and goats were feeble, he omitted putting the rods there; so the feebler animals were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴² but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

Common English Bible

⁴² But he didn’t put branches up for the weakest of the flock. So the weakest became Laban’s and the strongest Jacob’s.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴² Yet when the late arrivals and the last to conceive were let in, he did not place these. And so those that arrived late became Laban's, and those that arrived first became Jacob's.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴² But when the latter coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were lateward, become Laban's: and they of the first time, Jacob's.

Genesis 30:42 Cross References

Genesis 30:41

Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob laid the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the rods,

Genesis 30:43

Thus the man grew exceedingly rich and had large flocks and male and female slaves and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 31:12

And he said, ‘Look up and see that all the goats that leap on the flock are striped, speckled, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.