Genesis 31:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ “For all the wealth which Elohim has taken from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, do whatever Elohim has told you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is our's, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For all the riches which God has taken from our father are ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ All of the wealth God took from our father belongs to us and our children. Now, do everything God told you to do.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ But God has taken our father's riches and handed these to us and to our sons. Therefore, do all that God has instructed you."

Genesis 31:16 Cross References

Genesis 30:35

And on that day he set aside the male goats that were speckled and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the black ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

Genesis 31:15

“Are we not reckoned by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and also entirely consumed our silver.

Genesis 31:17

So Yaʽ

Genesis 31:9

“So Elohim has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.

Genesis 32:14

two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Psalm 45:10

Listen, O daughter, and see, And incline your ear, And forget your own people and your father’s house;