Genesis 30:42 - Easy To Read Version

⁴² But when the weaker animals mated, Jacob did not put the branches there. So the young animals born from the weak parents were Laban’s. And the young animals born from the stronger parents were 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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 30:41

Any time the stronger animals in the flock were mating, Jacob put the branches before their eyes. The animals mated near those branches.

Genesis 30:43

In this way, Jacob became very rich. He had large flocks, many servants, camels, and donkeys.

Genesis 31:12

“The angel said, ‘Look, only the striped and spotted goats are mating. I am causing this to happen. I have seen all the wrong things Laban is doing to you. I am doing this so that you can have all the new baby goats.