Genesis 30:40

30:40 Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face¹ the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks.

Genesis 31:43

31:43 Laban replied² to Jacob, “These women³ are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren,⁴ and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today⁵ or the children to whom they have given birth?

Genesis 29:3

29:3 When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds⁶ 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 Jacob⁷ 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 30:31-32

30:31 So Laban asked,¹⁰ “What should I give you?” “You don’t need to give me a thing,”¹¹ Jacob replied,¹² “but if you agree to this one condition,¹³ I will continue to care for¹⁴ your flocks and protect them: 30:32 Let me walk among¹⁵ all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb,¹⁶ and the spotted or speckled goats.¹⁷ These animals will be my wages.¹⁸

Genesis 31:41

31:41 This was my lot¹⁹ for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave²⁰ for you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

Genesis 37:14

37:14 So Jacob²¹ said to him, “Go now and check on²² the welfare²³ of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word.” So Jacob²⁴ sent him from the valley of Hebron.

Genesis 47:1

Joseph’s Wise Administration

47:1 Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of

Canaan. They are now²⁵ in the land of Goshen.”

Genesis 50:8

50:8 all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

¹tn Heb “and he set the faces of.”

²tn Heb “answered and said.”

³tn Heb “daughters.”

⁴tn Heb “children.”

⁵tn Heb “but to my daughters what can I do to these today?”

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

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

⁸tn Heb “the day is great.”

⁹tn 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.

¹⁰tn Heb “and he said.” The referent (Laban) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹tn The negated imperfect verbal form has an obligatory nuance.

¹²tn The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹³tn Heb “If you do for me this thing.”

¹⁴tn Heb “I will return, I will tend,” an idiom meaning “I will continue tending.”

¹⁵tn Heb “pass through.”

¹⁶tn Or “every black lamb”; Heb “and every dark sheep among the lambs.”

¹⁷tn Heb “and the spotted and speckled among the goats.”

¹⁸tn Heb “and it will be my wage.” The referent collective singular pronoun (“it) has been specified as “these animals” in the translation for clarity.

¹⁹tn Heb “this to me.”

²⁰tn Heb “served you,” but in this accusatory context the meaning is more “worked like a slave.”

²¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²²tn Heb “see.”

²³tn Heb “peace.”

²⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁵tn Heb “Look they [are] in the land of Goshen.” Joseph draws attention to the fact of their presence in Goshen.