Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty cows, and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten he-donkeys.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Camels. The milk of these animals is most exquisite, being mixed with three parts water. Pliny, Natural History xi. 41, who says, "They give milk till they be with young again. "The Arabs feed chiefly on their milk and flesh. (St. Jerome, contra Jor. ii.) The value of all these presents, may give us some idea of the prodigious wealth which God had heaped upon Jacob in the space of six years! (Haydock)
