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Animals: Facts About Breeding Genesis 30:35–43

That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons. / Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks. / Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

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Animals: Facts About Breeding Genesis 31:8, 9

If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring. / Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

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