“I will pass through 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.”
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. Jacob's proposal is the separation of the unusual animals — the ones not matching the standard coloring — as his share. The proposal seems modest: the spotted and speckled are the minority. The application: the proposal that appears disadvantageous to the proposer may contain a plan that the counter-party has not yet understood.
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