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I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
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Verse 32. Speckled; from those which are all of one colour. Those which should be of the former description must belong to Jacob, while all the black and the white should be Laban’s.—Brown, or of a dull mixture of white and black.—Spotted, having large patches of either colour.—Divers, little spots variegating the fleece. Menochius.—The original is extremely obscure. Jacob asks only for the worst; the speckled sheep and goats, also the black sheep and the white goats, verse 35. Bochart. Calmet.
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