Discovery BoxGenesis 31:9-12 
Context31:9 In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
31:10 “Once 1 during breeding season I saw 2 in a dream that the male goats mating with 3 the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted. 31:11 In the dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ ‘Here I am!’ I replied. 31:12 Then he said, ‘Observe 4 that all the male goats mating with 5 the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.
Genesis 31:38
Context31:38 “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.
Genesis 31:40
Context31:40 I was consumed by scorching heat 6 during the day and by piercing cold 7 at night, and I went without sleep. 8
Genesis 31:42
Context31:42 If the God of my father – the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears 9 – had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, 10 and he rebuked you last night.”
1 tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator, “and it happened at the time of.”
2 tn Heb “in the time of the breeding of the flock I lifted up my eyes and I saw.”
3 tn Heb “going up on,” that is, mounting for intercourse.
4 tn Heb “lift up (now) your eyes and see.”
5 tn Heb “going up on,” that is, mounting for intercourse.
6 tn Or “by drought.”
7 tn Heb “frost, ice,” though when contrasted with the חֹרֶב (khorev, “drought, parching heat”) of the day, “piercing cold” is more appropriate as a contrast.
8 tn Heb “and my sleep fled from my eyes.”
9 tn Heb “the fear of Isaac,” that is, the one whom Isaac feared and respected. For further discussion of this title see M. Malul, “More on pahad yitschaq (Gen. 31:42,53) and the Oath by the Thigh,” VT 35 (1985): 192-200.
10 tn Heb “My oppression and the work of my hands God saw.”
