Then said Laban: Lo, I am content, that it
be according as thou hast said. And he took out that same day the
he goats that were party and of divers colours, and all the goats
that were spotted and party coloured, and all that had white in
them, and all the black among the lambs: and put them in the
keeping of his sons, and set three days' journey betwixt himself
and Iacob. And so Iacob kept the rest of Laban's sheep. Iacob took
rods of green poplar, hazel, and of chestnut trees, and pilled
white streaks in them and made the white appear in the staves: And
he put the staves which he had pilled, even before the sheep, in
the gutters and watering troughs, when the sheep came to drink:
that they should conceive when they came to drink. And the sheep
conceived before the staves, and brought forth streaked, spotted
and party. Then Iacob parted the lambs, and turned the faces of
the sheep toward spotted things, and toward all manner of black
things thorow out the flocks of Laban. And he made him flocks of
his own by them self, which he put not unto the flocks of Laban.
And alway in the first bucking time of the sheep, Iacob put the
staves before the sheep in the gutters, that they might conceive
before the staves: But in the latter bucking time, he put them not
there: so the last brood was Laban's and the first Iacob's.
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