31 “What shall I give you?” he asked.

“Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:

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31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock.

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32 Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat.(A) They will be my wages.(B)

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32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

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10 I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors[a] of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors[b] of barley, twenty thousand baths[c] of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, probably about 3,600 tons or about 3,200 metric tons of wheat
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, probably about 3,000 tons or about 2,700 metric tons of barley
  3. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, about 120,000 gallons or about 440,000 liters

10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

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