01:030:030 For it was little which thou hadst before
I came, and it is
now
increased unto a multitude; and the lord hath
blessed thee
since
my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine
own
house
also?
01:030:031 And he said, What shall I give thee?
And Jacob said, Thou
shalt
not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing
for
me,
I will again feed and keep thy flock.
01:030:032 I will pass through all thy flock to day,
removing from thence
all
the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown
cattle
among
the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats:
and
of such shall be my hire.
01:030:033 So shall my righteousness answer for me
in time to come, when
it
shall come for my hire before thy face: every
one that is
not
speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among
the
sheep,
that shall be counted stolen with me.
01:030:034 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might
be according to thy
word.
01:030:035 And he removed that day the he goats that
were ringstraked and
spotted,
and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted,
and
every one that had some white in it, and all the brown
among
the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
01:030:036 And he set three days’ journey betwixt
himself and Jacob: and
Jacob
fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
01:030:037 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar,
and of the hazel and
chesnut
tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the
white
appear which was in the rods.
01:030:038 And he set the rods which he had pilled
before the flocks in
the
gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came
to
drink,
that they should conceive when they came to drink.
01:030:039 And the flocks conceived before the rods,
and brought forth
cattle
ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
01:030:040 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set
the faces of the
flocks
toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock
of
Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and
put
them
not unto Laban’s cattle.
01:030:041 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger
cattle did
conceive,
that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the
cattle
in the gutters, that they might conceive among the
rods.
01:030:042 But when the cattle were feeble, he put
them not in: so the
feebler
were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
01:030:043 And the man increased exceedingly, and
had much cattle, and
maidservants,
and menservants, and camels, and asses.


