Genesis 31:8
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What does Genesis 31:8 mean?
If he said thus, the speckled shall be thy
wages
Sometimes Laban would say to Jacob, only the speckled lambs which
the ewes shall bring forth shall be thine hire, and not the
spotted; or the ringstraked, or the brown, which according to the
bargain should have been his, the one and the other: then
all the cattle bare speckled;
that season, God ordering it so in his providence, that Laban
might be disappointed, and Jacob might have his full hire; that
is, the greatest part of the cattle bore such, as Ben Melech
observes: and if he said thus, the ringstraked shall be
thine hire;
observing the cattle to bring forth only speckled, or the
greatest part such, then he changed his hire, and would have it
be not the speckled, nor the brown, only the ringstraked, there
being none or few of that colour the last yeaning time:
then bare all the cattle ringstraked;
or the greatest part of them were such; so that let Laban fix on
what colour he would as Jacob's wages, there were sure to be the
greatest part of that colour; which shows the hand of God in it,
as is next observed by Jacob.
