OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 31:8

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If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.

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Verse 8. All, or the far greatest part, so that I was exceedingly enriched. Menochius.—The Septuagint here agrees with the Vulg. But the Hebrew and other versions, instead of white ones, read of divers colours, or ring-streaked, which takes away th intended opposition. Calmet.

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