- 拉班说,我当给你什么呢。雅各说,什么你也不必给我,只有一件事,你若应承,我便仍旧牧放你的羊群。
- 今天我要走遍你的羊群,把绵羊中凡有点的,有斑的,和黑色的,并山羊中凡有斑的,有点的,都挑出来。将来这一等的就算我的工价。
- 以后你来查看我的工价,凡在我手里的山羊不是有点有斑的,绵羊不是黑色的,那就算是我偷的。这样便可证出我的公义来。
- 拉班说,好阿ⅵ我情愿照着你的话行。
- 当日,拉班把有纹的,有斑的公山羊,有点的,有斑的,有杂白纹的母山羊,并黑色的绵羊,都挑出来,交在他儿子们的手下,
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- "What shall I give you?" he asked. "Don't give me anything," Jacob replied. "But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:
- Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.
- And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen."
- "Agreed," said Laban. "Let it be as you have said."
- That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them) and all the dark-colored lambs, and he placed them in the care of his sons.
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