“If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.”
If he said, the speckled ones will be your wages, then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, the streaked ones will be your wages, then all the flocks bore streaked young. The divine intervention in the breeding outcomes is the evidence that God protected Jacob from Laban's manipulation — whatever wages Laban specified, the flocks produced that kind for Jacob. The application: the divine provision that defeats systematic exploitation is the testimony Jacob carries to his wives.
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