Genesis 32:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Bible Comments

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

and twenty rams. And it seems this proportion of one he goat to ten she goats, and of one ram to ten ewes, is a proper one, and what has been so judged in other times and countries x.

x Varro de rustica, l. 2. c. 3. apud Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 43. col. 439. &c. 53. col. 648.

Genesis 32:14

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