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Genesis
30:31
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And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.
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Genesis
30:32
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I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and `of such' shall be my hire.
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Genesis
30:33
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So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when thou shalt come concerning my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that `if found' with me, shall be counted stolen.
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Genesis
30:34
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And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
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Genesis
30:35
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And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons;
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Genesis
30:36
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and he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
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Genesis
30:37
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And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree. And peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
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Genesis
30:38
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And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.
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Genesis
30:39
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And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
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Genesis
30:40
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And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock.
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