Genesis 30:42
But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob.
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29 “You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied,“and how well your livestock have fared under my care.
30 Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”
31 So Laban asked,“What should I give you?”“You don’t need to give me a thing,” Jacob replied,“but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:
32 Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.
33 My integrity will testify for me later on. When you come to verify that I’ve taken only the wages we agreed on, if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.”
34 “Agreed!” said Laban,“It will be as you say.”
35 So that day Laban removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted(all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care of his sons.
36 Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37 But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible.
38 Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink.
39 When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
40 Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks.
41 When the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches.
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43 In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.
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12 Then he said,‘Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.
- Gen 31:8-103 verses74%
8 If he said,‘The speckled animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said,‘The streaked animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring.
9 In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
10 “Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
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42 If the God of my father– the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears– had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”
43 Laban replied to Jacob,“These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today or the children to whom they have given birth?
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4 So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.
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14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
16 He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants,“Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”
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32 Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.”(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)
33 So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.
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7 because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.
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18 He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.
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25 Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.
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9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.
10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.
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13 But Jacob said to him,“My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.
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1 Jacob’s Flight from Laban Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining,“Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich at our father’s expense!”
2 When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.
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26 “It is not our custom here,” Laban replied,“to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.
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16 (Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.
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6 “Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied,“He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”