<p class="bodytext">Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder.<n id="1" /> He would send as tribute<n id="2" /> to the king of Israel 100,000 male lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.

Let me walk among<n id="1" /> all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb,<n id="2" /> and the spotted or speckled goats.<n id="3" /> These animals will be my wages.<n id="4" />

My integrity will testify for me<n id="1" /> later on.<n id="2" /> When you come to verify that I&#8217;ve taken only the wages we agreed on,<n id="3" /> 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.&#8221;<n id="4" />