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He said , "
What shall I give you ?"
Jacob said , "
You shall not give me anything .
If you will do this thing for me ,
I will again feed your flock and keep it .
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I will pass through all your flock today ,
removing from there every speckled and spotted one ,
and every black one among the sheep ,
and the spotted and speckled among the goats .
This will be my hire .
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So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter ,
when you come concerning my hire that is before you .
Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats ,
and black among the sheep ,
that might be with me ,
will be counted stolen ."
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Laban said , "
Behold ,
let it be according to your word ."
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That day ,
he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted ,
and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted ,
every one that had white in it ,
and all the black ones among the sheep ,
and gave them into the hand of his sons .
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He set three days '
journey between himself and Jacob ,
and Jacob fed the rest of Laban '
s flocks .
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Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar ,
almond ,
plane tree ,
peeled white streaks in them ,
and made the white appear which was in the rods .
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He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink .
They conceived when they came to drink .
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The flocks conceived before the rods ,
and the flocks produced streaked ,
speckled ,
and spotted .
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Jacob separated the lambs ,
and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban :
and he put his own droves apart ,
and didn '
t put them into Laban '
s flock .
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It happened ,
whenever the stronger of the flock conceived ,
that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters ,
that they might conceive among the rods ;
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but when the flock were feeble ,
he didn '
t put them in .
So the feebler were Laban '
s ,
and the stronger Jacob '
s .
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The man increased exceedingly ,
and had large flocks ,
female servants and male servants ,
and camels and donkeys .