He gave them into the hands of his sons To be fed apart by themselves, lest Jacob should get any of them to mix with those of one colour. He set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob Such journeys as flocks are able to make, that they might not so much as see one another. Between this and the 37th verse, the Samaritan copy inserts a paragraph about the angel's appearing to Jacob in a dream, which is not found in any other version; but is related by Jacob himself in the following chapter, Genesis 30:11, as a thing which had happened to him, and which justifies the policy which the subsequent verses represent him as using.

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