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Genesis 31:9

New Century Version

So God has taken the animals away from your father and has given them to me.

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so the flocks mated in front of the branches. Then the young that were born were streaked, speckled, or spotted.

One day Jacob heard Laban’s sons talking. They said, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned, and in this way he has become rich.”

“I had a dream during the season when the flocks were mating. I saw that the only male goats who were mating were streaked, speckled, or spotted.

God took all this wealth from our father, and now it belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you to do.”

two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred female sheep and twenty male sheep,

because every animal of the forest is already mine. The cattle on a thousand hills are mine.

Good people leave their wealth to their grandchildren, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for good people.

I can do what I want with my own money. Are you jealous because I am good to those people?’