KJV King James Version
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
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Genesis 32:14
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,
WEB World English Bible
two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
ASV American Standard Version
two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
she-goats two hundred, and he-goats twenty, ewes two hundred, and rams twenty,
Surrounding context — Genesis 32
11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, [and] the mother with the children.
12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
16 And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and whose [are] these before thee?
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Job 1:3His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.Job 42:12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.Deuteronomy 8:18But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it is] he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day.1 Samuel 25:2And [there was] a man in Maon, whose possessions [were] in Carmel; and the man [was] very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.Genesis 30:43And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.Genesis 31:9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.Genesis 31:16For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that [is] ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
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