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of diuers colours, of speckled flyse: and what-soeuer shal be russet and spotted, and of diuers colours, as wel in the sheep, as in the goats, shal be my wages. ³³And my iustice shal answer for me to morow, before thee when the time of the bargaine shal come: and al that shal not be of diuers colours, and spotted, and russet, as wel in the sheep as in the goats, shal accuse me of theft. ³⁴And Laban said: I like wel that thou demandest. ³⁵And he separated the same day the she goats, and the sheep, and the he goats, and the rammes of diuers colours, and spotted: and al the flocke of one colour, that is of white and blacke flyse, he deliuered in the hand of his sonnes. ³⁶And he put a space of three dayes iourney betwixt him and his sonne in law, who fed the rest of his flocke. ³⁷Iacob therfore ^[1] taking green rods of the poplar, and of the almond, and of the plane-trees, in part pilled them: and when the barkes were taken off, in the parts that were pilled there appeared whitnes: but the parts that were whole, remayned green: and by this meanes the colour was made diuers. ³⁸And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out: that when the flockes should come to drinke, they might haue the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them conceaue. ³⁹And it came to passe that in the verie heate of the ramming, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of diuers colours, and speckled. ⁴⁰And Iacob diuided the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rammes: and al the white and the blacke were Labans: and the rest, Iacobs, when the flockes were separated one from the other. ⁴¹Therfore when the ewes went to ramme, in the prime time Iacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rammes, and of the ewes, that in looking vpon them they might conceaue: ⁴²but when the later comming was, and the last conceauing, he did not put them. And those that were lateward, became Labans: and they of the prime time, Iacobs. ⁴³And the man was enriched beyond measure, and he had manie flockes, women seruants and men seruants, camels and asses.

1. Iacob did iustly vse this meanes to recouer that which Laban withheld from him, being due for the dowrie of his wiues, and recompence for his seruice. Rupert. l. 7. c. 39. in Gen.