Genesis 30:33
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.””
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“So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.”
King James Version · Public Domain“So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when thou shalt come concerning my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and my righteousness hath answered for me in the day to come, when it cometh in for my hire before thy face; --every one which is not speckled and spotted among <FI>my<Fi> goats, and brown among <FI>my<Fi> lambs--it is stolen with me.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 30:33 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 31:37You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.
- Exodus 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- 1 Samuel 26:23May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed.
- 2 Samuel 22:21The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
- Psalms 37:6He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.
- Isaiah 59:12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:
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