Genesis 24:35

24:35 “The Lord has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. ¹  The Lord ²  has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 29:2-3

29:2 He saw ³  in the field a well with ⁴  three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now ⁵  a large stone covered the mouth of the well. 29:3 When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds ⁶  would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.

Genesis 29:7

29:7 Then Jacob ⁷  said, “Since it is still the middle of the day, ⁸  it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.” ⁹ 

Genesis 30:32

30:32 Let me walk among ¹⁰  all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, ¹¹  and the spotted or speckled goats. ¹²  These animals will be my wages. ¹³ 

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¹ tn Heb “great.” In this context the statement refers primarily to Abraham’s material wealth, although reputation and influence are not excluded.

² tn Heb “and he.” The referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “and he saw, and look.” As in Gen 28:12-15, the narrator uses the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) here and in the next clause to draw the reader into the story.

⁴ tn Heb “and look, there.”

⁵ tn The disjunctive clause (introduced by the noun with the prefixed conjunction) provides supplemental information that is important to the story.

⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the shepherds) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “the day is great.”

⁹ tn Heb “water the sheep and go and pasture [them].” The verbal forms are imperatives, but Jacob would hardly be giving direct orders to someone else’s shepherds. The nuance here is probably one of advice.

¹⁰ tn Heb “pass through.”

¹¹ tn Or “every black lamb”; Heb “and every dark sheep among the lambs.”

¹² tn Heb “and the spotted and speckled among the goats.”

¹³ tn Heb “and it will be my wage.” The referent collective singular pronoun (“it) has been specified as “these animals” in the translation for clarity.