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30:27 But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.” 30:28 He added, “Just name your wages– I’ll pay whatever you want.” 30:29 “You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, “and how well your livestock have fared under my care. 30:30 Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” 30:31 So Laban asked, “What should I give you?” “You don’t need to give me a thing,” Jacob replied, “but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them: 30:32 Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages. 30:33 My integrity will testify for me later on. When you come to verify that I’ve taken only the wages we agreed on, if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.” 30:34 “Agreed!” said Laban, “It will be as you say.” 30:35 So that day Laban removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted (all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care of his sons. 30:36 Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks. 30:37 But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible. 30:38 Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink. 30:39 When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted. 30:40 Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks. 30:41 When the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches. 30:42 But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob. 30:43 In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Jacob the second so of a pair of twins born to Isaac and Rebeccaa; ancestor of the 12 tribes of Israel,the nation of Israel,a person, male,son of Isaac; Israel the man and nation
 · Laban son of Bethuel; brother of Rebecca; father of Leah and Rachel; uncle and father-in-law of Jacob,a town in Moab


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Concubine | Laban | Jacob | CHILD; CHILDREN | Contracts | Craftiness | Dishonesty | Wages | Animals | Greed | Rachel | Sheep | SPOT; SPOTTED | Servant | Worldliness | Son-in-law | COLOR; COLORS | Hazel | Poplar | RINGSTREAKED | more
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NET Notes: Gen 30:27 Or perhaps “I have grown rich and the Lord has blessed me” (cf. NEB). See J. Finkelstein, “An Old Babylonian Herding Contract and Ge...

NET Notes: Gen 30:28 Heb “set your wage for me so I may give [it].”

NET Notes: Gen 30:29 Heb “and how your cattle were with me.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:30 Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”

NET Notes: Gen 30:31 Heb “I will return, I will tend,” an idiom meaning “I will continue tending.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:32 Heb “and it will be my wage.” The referent collective singular pronoun (“it) has been specified as “these animals” in th...

NET Notes: Gen 30:33 Heb “every one which is not speckled and spotted among the lambs and dark among the goats, stolen it is with me.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:34 Heb “and Laban said, ‘Good, let it be according to your word.’” On the asseverative use of the particle לוּ ...

NET Notes: Gen 30:35 Heb “and he gave [them] into the hand.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:36 The disjunctive clause (introduced by the vav with subject) is circumstantial/temporal; Laban removed the animals while Jacob was taking care of the r...

NET Notes: Gen 30:38 He put the branches in front of the flocks…when they came to drink. It was generally believed that placing such “visual aids” before...

NET Notes: Gen 30:39 Heb “the sheep.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“they”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

NET Notes: Gen 30:40 Heb “and he set the faces of.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:41 Heb “and at every breeding-heat of the flock.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:42 Heb “were for Laban.”

NET Notes: Gen 30:43 Heb “and there were to him.”

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