<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.&#8221;

She put the skins of the young goats<n id="1" /> on his hands<n id="2" /> and the smooth part of his neck.

two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

So they took Joseph&#8217;s tunic, killed a young goat,<n id="1" /> and dipped the tunic in the blood.

Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I&#8217;ll prepare<n id="1" /> them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

He replied, &#8220;I&#8217;ll send you a young goat from the flock.&#8221; She asked, &#8220;Will you give me a pledge until you send it?&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Judah had his friend Hirah<n id="1" /> the Adullamite take a young goat to get back from the woman the items he had given in pledge,<n id="2" /> but Hirah<n id="3" /> could not find her.

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" />

<p class="bodytext">So that day Laban<n id="1" /> 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<n id="2" /> of his sons.