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Ge 30:32 Strong Concordance I will pass [05674] through all thy flock [06629] to day [03117], removing [05493] from thence all the speckled [05348] and spotted [02921] cattle [07716], and all the brown [02345] cattle [07716] among the sheep [03775], and the spotted [02921] and speckled [05348] among the goats [05795]: and of such shall be my hire [07939].
  King James 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.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
I will pass through all thy flock to-day--Eastern sheep being generally white, the goats black, and spotted or speckled ones comparatively few and rare, Jacob proposed to remove all existing ones of that description from the flock, and to be content with what might appear at the next lambing time. The proposal seemed so much in favor of Laban, that he at once agreed to it. But Jacob has been accused of taking advantage of his uncle, and though it is difficult to exculpate him from practising some degree of dissimulation, he was only availing himself of the results of his great skill and experience in the breeding of cattle. But it is evident from the next chapter (Gen 31:5-13) that there was something miraculous and that the means he had employed had been suggested by a divine intimation.
 
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5 And said [0559] unto them, I see [07200] your father's [01] countenance [06440], that it is not toward me as [08543] before [08032]; but the God [0430] of my father [01] hath been [01961] with me.
6 And ye [0859] know [03045] that with all my power [03581] I have served [05647] your father [01].
7 And your father [01] hath deceived [02048] me, and changed [02498] my wages [04909] ten [06235] times [04489]; but God [0430] suffered him [05414] not to hurt [07489] me [05978].
8 If he said [0559] thus, The speckled [05348] shall be thy wages [07939]; then all the cattle [06629] bare [03205] speckled [05348]: and if he said [0559] thus, The ringstraked [06124] shall be thy hire [07939]; then bare [03205] all the cattle [06629] ringstraked [06124].
9 Thus God [0430] hath taken away [05337] the cattle [04735] of your father [01], and given [05414] them to me.
10 And it came to pass at the time [06256] that the cattle [06629] conceived [03179], that I lifted up [05375] mine eyes [05869], and saw [07200] in a dream [02472], and, behold, the rams [06260] which leaped [05927] upon the cattle [06629] were ringstraked [06124], speckled [05348], and grisled [01261].
11 And the angel [04397] of God [0430] spake [0559] unto me in a dream [02472], saying, Jacob [03290]: And I said [0559], Here am I.
12 And he said [0559], Lift up [05375] now thine eyes [05869], and see [07200], all the rams [06260] which leap [05927] upon the cattle [06629] are ringstraked [06124], speckled [05348], and grisled [01261]: for I have seen [07200] all that Laban [03837] doeth [06213] unto thee.
13 I am the God [0410] of Bethel [01008], where thou anointedst [04886] the pillar [04676], and where thou vowedst [05087] a vow [05088] unto me: now arise [06965], get thee out [03318] from this land [0776], and return [07725] unto the land [0776] of thy kindred [04138].
16 And of thy garments [0899] thou didst take [03947], and deckedst [06213] thy high places [01116] with divers colours [02921], and playedst the harlot [02181] thereupon: the like things shall not come [0935], neither shall it be so.