Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 30:32
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Genesis30:32
32 I will pass thorow all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle : and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and of such shall be my hire .
Which may seem to be thus distinguished speckled with little spots, and spotted with greater spots or stains, both of divers colours from the rest of the body. Or, the speckled may be the same with the ring-streaked, by comparing this with ver. 35.
Or black, or dark-coloured, for the Hebrew word signifies also great heat which produceth such a colour.
Or, then shall be my hire; and for then, as is frequent in Scripture. The sense is, Then, when the speckled and spotted and brown are separated, and none but white remaining, my hire shall be out of those white ones, and that in such manner as is expressed in the following verse, all the white young ones shall be thine, and the speckled and spotted and brown which shall be brought forth by those white ones shall be mine.
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