“And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.”
Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink. The positioning of the branches — in front of the animals at the moment of conception — is the folk biology logic: visual stimulus at the moment of reproduction affects offspring coloring. The application: Jacob is working with the knowledge he has, directed by the dream he will describe in Genesis 31. The combination of active effort and divine guidance is the pattern.
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