But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsbut when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.
and when the flock is feeble, he doth not set them ; and the feeble ones have been Laban's, and the strong ones Jacob's.
but when the sheep were feeble, he put [them] not in; so the feeble were Laban's, and the strong Jacob's.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)