Genesis 30:33-40

³³So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”

³⁴“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”

³⁵That 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.

³⁶Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.

³⁷Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

³⁸Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

³⁹they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

⁴⁰Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.

— Genesis 30:33-40

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Cross References for Genesis 30:33-40

• Galatians 5:12
• Genesis 31:42
• Exodus 13:14
• Genesis 31:9
• Genesis 31:37
• Genesis 31:38
• 1 Samuel 26:23
• 1 Corinthians 14:5
• Exodus 12:35-36
• Isaiah 59:12

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