“Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.