Genesis 31:8 meaning and explanation
If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.
Genesis 31:8, Berean Standard Bible
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Jacob is speaking to his wives Rachel and Leah in the open field, recounting twenty years of service to their father Laban. Laban kept changing the agreed wages, ten times according to verse 7, but each time the flock produced the very animals he had named, so the profit came to Jacob.
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