“And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.”
Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban's animals. The careful separation of the resulting unusual animals into Jacob's own herd is the accumulation process. Jacob is building his herd one breeding season at a time. The application: the long accumulation of what God is providing — one season at a time, carefully set apart — is the pattern of the covenant person building their household.
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