Genesis 31:16
New International Version
Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

New Living Translation
All the wealth God has given you from our father legally belongs to us and our children. So go ahead and do whatever God has told you.”

English Standard Version
All the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”

Berean Standard Bible
Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

King James Bible
For 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.

New King James Version
For all these riches which God has taken from our father are really ours and our children’s; now then, whatever God has said to you, do it.”

New American Standard Bible
Surely all the wealth which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and our children; now then, do whatever God has told you.”

NASB 1995
“Surely all the wealth which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and our children; now then, do whatever God has said to you.”

NASB 1977
“Surely all the wealth which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and our children; now then, do whatever God has said to you.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Surely all the riches which God has delivered over to us from our father belong to us and our children; now then, do whatever God has said to you.”

Amplified Bible
Surely all the riches which God has taken from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has told you to do, do it.”

Christian Standard Bible
In fact, all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has said to you.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In fact, all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has said to you.”

American Standard Version
For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because God has separated all wealth from our father; it is ours and our children's, and now all that LORD JEHOVAH has said to you, do.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
All the wealth and the glory which God has taken from our father, it shall be our's and our children's; now then do whatsoever God has said to thee.

Contemporary English Version
So do whatever God tells you to do. Even the property God took from our father and gave to you really belongs to us and our children.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.

English Revised Version
For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Certainly, all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. Now do whatever God has told you."

Good News Translation
All this wealth which God has taken from our father belongs to us and to our children. Do whatever God has told you."

International Standard Version
Furthermore, all of the wealth that God has stripped away from our father belongs to us now and to our children. So do everything that God tells you to do."

JPS Tanakh 1917
For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.'

Literal Standard Version
for all the wealth which God has taken away from our father, it [is] ours, and our children’s; and now, all that God has said to you—do.”

Majority Standard Bible
Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

New American Bible
All the wealth that God took away from our father really belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

NET Bible
Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you."

New Revised Standard Version
All the property that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children; now then, do whatever God has said to you.”

New Heart English Bible
For all the wealth which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children�s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

Webster's Bible Translation
For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then whatever God hath said to thee, do.

World English Bible
For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”

Young's Literal Translation
for all the wealth which God hath taken away from our father, it is ours, and our children's; and now, all that God hath said unto thee -- do.'

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Context
Jacob Flees from Laban
15Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us. 16Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.” 17Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,…

Cross References
Genesis 31:9
Thus God has taken away your father's livestock and given them to me.

Genesis 31:15
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.

Genesis 31:17
Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,


Treasury of Scripture

For all the riches which God has taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatever God has said to you, do.

which God.

Genesis 31:1,9
And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory…

Genesis 30:35-43
And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons…

whatsoever.

Psalm 45:10
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

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Genesis 31
1. Jacob, displeased with the envy of Laban and his sons, departs secretly.
19. Rachel steals her father's household gods.
22. Laban pursues after him, and complains of the wrong.
34. Rachel's plan to hide the images.
36. Jacob's complaint of Laban.
43. The covenant of Laban and Jacob at Galeed.
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Surely
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

all
כָל־ (ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the wealth
הָעֹ֗שֶׁר (hā·‘ō·šer)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6239: Wealth

that
אֲשֶׁ֨ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

God
אֱלֹהִים֙ (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

has taken away
הִצִּ֤יל (hiṣ·ṣîl)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5337: To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver

from our father
מֵֽאָבִ֔ינוּ (mê·’ā·ḇî·nū)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 1: Father

belongs to us
לָ֥נוּ (lā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew

and to our children.
וּלְבָנֵ֑ינוּ (ū·lə·ḇā·nê·nū)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 1121: A son

So
וְעַתָּ֗ה (wə·‘at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 6258: At this time

do
עֲשֵֽׂה׃ (‘ă·śêh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

whatever
כֹּל֩ (kōl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

God
אֱלֹהִ֛ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

has told
אָמַ֧ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

you.”
אֵלֶ֖יךָ (’ê·le·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to


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