Genesis 30:42 meaning and explanation

But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.

Genesis 30:42, Berean Standard Bible

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Jacob is still working for his father-in-law Laban in Paddan Aram, and the wages he proposed were the spotted, speckled and dark animals. In this verse he sets the peeled branches before the stronger females only, so the strong young go to his flock and the weak to Laban's.

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