Genesis 32:14

Modern

…200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,

Traditional

Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

Literal

Two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams.

Latin

…capras ducentas, hircos viginti, oves ducentas, et arietes viginti,

Hebrew

English

200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,

Taking a large portion of the wealth God had blessed him with (some 550 animals), Jacob prepared a gift to appease Esau’s anger and gain his favor.

Theme notes and profiles

Job 42:12
So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
Deuteronomy 8:18
But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.
Job 1:3
…and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
Genesis 31:9
Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
Genesis 30:43
Thus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.
1 Samuel 25:2
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
Genesis 31:16
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.”