And Jacob did separate the lambs,.... The ringstraked, speckled, and spotted;and set the faces of the flocks, that were all white,towards the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; either to go before those that were all white, that they by looking at them might conceive and bring forth such, which was another artifice of Jacob's to increase his own sheep; or else he set at the water troughs the white sheep on one side of them, and on the opposite side the speckled ones, &c.
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Genesis 30:40
Genesis 30:40
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