Genesis 27:14

27:14 So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

Genesis 31:10

31:10 “Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Genesis 31:38

31:38 “I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.


tn The words “the goats” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

tn Heb “his mother.” This has been replaced by the pronoun “she” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator, “and it happened at the time of.”

tn Heb “in the time of the breeding of the flock I lifted up my eyes and I saw.”

tn Heb “going up on,” that is, mounting for intercourse.