Genesis 30:35

_AND HE REMOVED THAT DAY THE HE GOATS THAT WERE RINGSTRAKED AND SPOTTED, AND ALL THE SHE GOATS THAT WERE SPECKLED AND SPOTTED, AND EVERY ONE THAT HAD SOME WHITE IN IT, AND ALL THE BROWN AMONG THE SHEEP, AND GAVE THEM INTO THE HAND OF HIS SONS._ He removed ... the he-goats that were ringstraked - [Hebrew, _ `ªQUDIYM_ (H6124), marked with stripes; variegated, especially on the feet; pied-footed: Septuagint, tous rantous (Symmachus, leukopodas).] AND SPOTTED, [Hebrew, _ WªHATªLU'IYM_ (H2921)] - having large spots like patches on their bodies (cf. Joshua 10:5); the goats and sheep are here spoken of together, being usually intermingled in the same flock, as they are in the present day (Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' 2:, p. 169)....

35._And he removed that day_. From this verse the form of the compact is more certainly known. Laban separates the sheep and goats marked with spots from the pure flock, that is, from the white or black, and commits these to his sons to be fed; interposing a three-days’ journey between them and the rest; lest, by promiscuous intercourse, a particoloured offspring should be produced. It follows, therefore, that, in the flock which Jacob fed, nothing remained but cattle of one color: thus but faint hope of gain remained to the holy man, while every provision was made for Laban’s advantage. It also appears, from the distance of the places, in which Laban kept his flocks apart, that he was not less suspicious than covetous; for dishonest men are wont to measure others by their own standard; whence it happens that they are always distrustful and alarmed....

25-43 The fourteen years being gone, Jacob was willing to depart without any provision, except God's promise. But he had in many ways a just claim on Laban's substance, and it was the will of God that he should be provided for from it. He referred his cause to God, rather than agree for stated wages with Laban, whose selfishness was very great. And it would appear that he acted honestly, when none but those of the colours fixed upon should be found among his cattle. Laban selfishly thought that his cattle would produce few different in colour from their own. Jacob's course after this agreement has been considered an instance of his policy and management. But it was done by intimation from God, and as a token of his power. The Lord will one way or another plead the cause of the oppressed, and honour those who simply trust his providence. Neither could Laban complain of Jacob, for he had...

Verse Genesis 30:35. _THE HE-GOATS THAT WERE RING-STREAKED_] התישים העקדים _hatteyashim haakuddim_, the _he-goats_ that had _rings_ of _black_ or _other coloured hair_ around their _feet_ or _legs_. It is extremely difficult to find out, from Genesis 30:32 and Genesis 30:35, in _what_ the bargain of Jacob with his father-in-law properly consisted. It appears from Genesis 30:32, that Jacob was to have for his wages all the _speckled, spotted_, and _brown_ among the sheep and the goats; and of course that all those which were not party-coloured should be consider

- Jacob’s Family and Wealth 6. דן _dān_, Dan, “judge, lord.” 8. נפתלי _naptālı̂y_, Naphtali, “wrestling.” 11. גד _gād_, Gad, “overcoming, victory.” בגד _bāgād_, “in victory or” =גד בא _bā'_ _gād_, “victory cometh.” גוּד _gûd_, “press down.” גדוּד _g__e__dûd_, “troop.” 13. אשׁר _'ǎashēr_, Asher, “prosperity, happiness.”

EXPOSITION GENESIS 30:25 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN RACHEL HAD BORN JOSEPH,—either at or about the expiry of the second term of seven years. Jacob's family now consisted in all of eleven sons and one daughter, unless Dinah's birth occurred later in the next term of service (Keil). Since these were all born within seven years, the chronological cannot be the order observed by the historian in recording the events of the preceding paragraphs. Rather the births of the children are arranged in connection with the mothers from whom they sprang. Hence the possibility of acquiring so large a family in so short a time. The six sons of Leah might be born in the seven years, allowing one year's complete cessation from pregnancy, viz; the fifth; Bilhah's in the third and fourth years; Zilpah's in the beginning of the sixth and seventh; and Rachel'

AND HE REMOVED THAT DAY THE HE GOATS THAT WERE RINGSTRAKED AND SPOTTED,.... That had strakes of a different colour from the rest on their shoulders, thighs, logs, or feet, or in any part of the body: the word here used stands in the room of that before translated "speckled"; this Laban did, as the context shows; he went about it immediately at the motion of Jacob, with which he was pleased: AND ALL THE SHE GOATS THAT WERE SPECKLED AND SPOTTED; so that there might be neither male nor female of those mixed colours; this he did to prevent any generation of them: [AND] EVERYONE THAT HAD [SOME] WHITE IN IT; any white spot in it, as the Targum of Jonathan; that is, everyone of the brown or black colour, that had any white in it: AND ALL THE BROWN AMONG THE SHEEP: that were entirely so: AND, GAVE [THEM] INTO THE HANDS OF HIS SONS; not the sons of Jacob, as some in Aben Ezra; for they were n...

CHAPTER 30 JACOB WITH LABAN _ 1. The sons of Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali (Genesis 30:1)_ 2. The sons of Zilpah: Gad and Asher (Genesis 30:9) 3. The children of Leah: Issachar, Zebulon and Dinah (Genesis 30:14) 4. The birth of Joseph (Genesis 30:22) 5. Jacob's request to return (Genesis 30:25) 6. Laban's confession and Jacob's prosperity (Genesis 30:27) Little comment is needed on this. The avarice and dec

JACOB GROWS RICH BY OVERREACHING LABAN. This is a difficult section. It is taken from JE. The analysis is uncertain. To J may be assigned Genesis 30:25; Genesis 30:27; Genesis 30:29; Genesis 30:35 f., to E Genesis 30:26; Genesis 30:28; Genesis 30:33 f., while Genesis 30:32 is to be divided

_into the hand of his sons_ Laban in accepting Jacob's offer determines to make the very best of the new arrangement. Any parti-coloured goats, and any black sheep in his flock, "he removed that day," and put into the keeping of his own sons, so that they might not afterwards be claimed by Jacob. Jacob will begin the new term of service with nothing in his favour. All the sheep that he will tend will be white, and all the goats black....