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Genesis 30 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
32 Go round above all the flocks, and separate all the sheep of diverse colours, of speckled fleece: and what-soever shall be russet and spotted, and of diverse colours, as well in the sheep as in the goats, shall be my wages.
33 And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when the time of the bargain shall come: and all that shall not be of diverse colours, and spotted, and russet, as well in the sheep as in the goats, shall accuse me of theft.
34 And Laban said: I like well that thou demandest.
35 And he separated the same day the she goats, and the sheep, and the he goats, and the rams of diverse colours, and spotted: and all the flock of one colour, that is of white and black fleece, he delivered in the hand of his sons.
36 And he put a space of three days' journey betwixt him and his son in law, who fed the rest of his flock.
37 Jacob therefore taking green rods of the poplar, and of the almond, and of the plane-trees, in part pilled them: and when the barks were taken off, in the parts that were pilled there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole remained green: and by this means the colour was made diverse.
38 And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out: that when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them conceive.
39 And it came to pass that in the very heat of the ramming, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of diverse colours, and speckled.
40 And Jacob divided the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams: and all the white and the black were Laban's, and the rest, Jacob's, when the flocks were separated one from the other.
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