Genesis - 32:15

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15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 32:15.

Differing Translations

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Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.
Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she asses, and ten of their foals.
thirty milch camels with their colts; forty kine, and ten bulls; twenty she-asses, and ten young asses.
suckling camels and their young ones thirty, cows forty, and bullocks ten, she-asses twenty, and foals ten;
Thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.
thirty milking camels with their young, forty cows, and twenty bulls, twenty she-donkeys, and ten of their young.
Camelos lactantes, et pullos earum triginta: vaccas quadraginta, et juvencos decem: asinas viginti, et pullos decem.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Ten bulls - The Syriac and Vulgate have twenty; but ten is a sufficient proportion to the forty kine. By all this we see that Jacob was led to make restitution for the injury he had done to his brother. Restitution for injuries done to man is essentially requisite if in our power. He who can and will not make restitution for the wrongs he has done, can have no claim even on the mercy of God.

Thirty milch camels with their colts,.... Milch camels were in great esteem in the eastern countries; their milk being, as Aristotle (y) and Pliny (z) say, the sweetest of all milk:
forty kine and ten bulls; one bull to ten cows; the same proportion as in the goats and rams:
twenty she asses and ten foals; and supposing thirty colts belonging to the camels; the present consisted of five hundred and eighty head of cattle: a large number to spare out of his flocks and herds, that he had acquired in six years' time; and showed a generous disposition as well as prudence, to part with so much in order to secure the rest.
(y) Hist. Animal. l. 6. c. 26. (z) Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 41. & 28. 9.

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