Reading for March 12th

Read Genesis 30:25-43 Jacob prospers and Laban loses.
Laban promises to give Jacob all the sheep and goats that are spotted or black (vv. 32-34).
But then Laban secretly removes all the spotted and black animals from the herd
and sends them away so nothing is left for Jacob (vv. 35-36).
Jacob places striped or spotted almond or poplar branches in front of the strong
sheep and goats as they mate.
The assumption was that whatever the animals saw while they mated would
determine whether their offspring would be a solid or a spotted color.
An underlying biological fact is that even though the parent animals were both all white,
they could carry the recessive gene for black or a spotted color.
As a result of his genetic engineering, Jacob grew exceedingly rich (v. 43).
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