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Laban and Jacob make a covenant together, as narrated in Genesis 31:44–54. Laban (Aramaic: ܠܵܒܵܢ; Hebrew: לָבָן , Modern: Lavan, Tiberian: Lāḇān, "White"), also known as Laban the Aramean, is a figure in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible. He was the brother of Rebekah, the woman who married Isaac and bore Jacob.
Jacob suggested that all the spotted, speckled, and brown goats and sheep of Laban's flock, at any given moment, would be his wages. Jacob placed rods of poplar, hazel, and chestnut, all of which he peeled "white streaks upon them," [ 26 ] within the flocks' watering holes or troughs, associating the stripes of the rods with the growth of ...
The Dog and the Sheep is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 478 in the Perry Index. [1] Originally its subject was the consequence of bearing false witness. However, longer treatments of the story during the Middle Ages change the focus to deal with perversions of justice by the powerful at the expense of the poor.
Laban pressed him again, so Jacob offered to keep Laban's flock in exchange for the speckled, spotted, and dark sheep and goats, and thus Laban could clearly tell Jacob's flock from his. [56] Laban agreed, but that day he removed the speckled and spotted goats and dark sheep from his flock and gave them to his sons and put three day's distance ...
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The black goats and sheep will belong to Laban, while spotted, speckled or brown goats will belong to Jacob. After Laban agrees, Jacob places wood "with white streaks" in front of the strongest animals during breeding so as to produce spotted offspring. He further uses selective breeding to ensure "the feebler would be Laban's, and the stronger ...
Laban and Jacob make a covenant together, as narrated in Genesis 31:44–54. Mizpah (מִצְפָּה miṣpāh, mitspah) is Hebrew for "watchtower". It is mentioned in the biblical story of Jacob and Laban, where a pile of stones marks an agreement between two people, with God as their watching witness.
According to Genesis 31, when her husband Jacob escapes, Rachel takes the teraphim belonging to her father Laban and hides them on a camel's saddle. When Laban comes looking for them, she sits on them and claims that she cannot get up because she is "in the women's way," i.e., menstruating. From this it can be deduced that the teraphim were ...