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The black goats and sheep will belong to Laban, while spotted, speckled or brown goats will belong to Jacob.
This reverses the Genesis account. In Genesis 30, Jacob’s wages are the dark lambs/sheep and the speckled or spotted goats, not Laban’s.
Full reasoning
Genesis 30 says Jacob, not Laban, is to receive the unusually colored animals.
- Genesis 30:32–33 states that Jacob’s wages would be the dark lambs/sheep and the speckled or spotted goats.
- Genesis 30:35 then says Laban removed those animals and put them under his sons’ care, which is precisely why Jacob had to breed for more of them afterward.
So the article’s sentence gets the division backwards: it says the black goats and sheep would belong to Laban, when the biblical text says the dark sheep/lambs and speckled/spotted goats were to be Jacob’s wages. It also muddles the categories by referring to “black goats,” whereas the text distinguishes dark sheep/lambs from speckled/spotted goats.
2 sources
- Genesis, CHAPTER 30 | USCCB
Genesis 30:32: "Let me go through your whole flock today and remove from it every dark animal among the lambs and every spotted or speckled one among the goats. These will be my wages."
- What does Genesis 30:32 mean? | BibleRef.com
"Jacob asks that any future black lambs or speckled and spotted sheep and goats be his payment." The page quotes Genesis 30:32 as Jacob saying those animals "shall be my wages."