Genesis 30:34

The Message

“Fair enough,” said Laban. “It’s a deal.”

Cross References

Genesis 30:35

But that very day Laban removed all the mottled and spotted billy goats and all the speckled and spotted nanny goats, every animal that had even a touch of white on it plus all the black sheep and placed them under the care of his sons. Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Meanwhile Jacob went on tending what was left of Laban’s flock.

Numbers 22:29

Balaam said, “Because you’ve been playing games with me! If I had a sword I would have killed you by now.”

1 Corinthians 7:7

Sometimes I wish everyone were single like me—a simpler life in many ways! But celibacy is not for everyone any more than marriage is. God gives the gift of the single life to some, the gift of the married life to others.