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 not
fit for the care of a flock, the eldest son, Reuben, not being
seven years of age; but the sons of Laban, who were now grown up
and fit for such service.
Genesis 30:35
