For the little that you had before I came has increased abundantly, and Hashem has blessed you at my every step. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?”
And he said, “What shall I give you?” And Yaakov said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it.”
I will pass through all your flock today; remove from there every speckled and spotted animal, and every dark one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and it shall be my wages.”
And my righteousness shall answer for me on a future day, when you come concerning my wages before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and dark among the sheep, shall be considered stolen if it is with me.”
And he removed that day the streaked and spotted he-goats and all the speckled and spotted she-goats, every one that had white in it, and all the dark ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
And Yaakov separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the streaked and all the dark in the flock of Lavan; and he put his own droves apart and did not put them with Lavan’s flock.
And it was whenever the stronger of the flock were in heat that Yaakov would place the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, so that they would be in heat by the rods.
And he heard the words of Lavan’s sons, saying, “Yaakov has taken all that was our father’s, and from that which was our father’s he has made all this wealth.”
If he said thus, ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus, ‘The streaked shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
And it was at the time the flock conceived that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold the he-goats that mounted the flock were streaked, speckled, and mottled.
And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see: all the he-goats that mount the flock are streaked, speckled, and mottled, for I have seen all that Lavan is doing to you.
Torah Temimah records no numbered derasha on these passukim in the harvest used for this build. The main ring therefore carries one SKIP for the entire continuous silent range.
Passukim covered by this SKIP: 30:28–43 and 31:01–12