If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bore speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy hire; then bore all the cattle ringstreaked.
8. If he said thus ] Applying to Laban the proposal made by Jacob in Gen 30:32.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
All the cattle. All is here, as oft elsewhere, put for the greater or the better part, as appears from Gen 31:1,8. Or, for all that Jacob desired to be such.
The ring-straked shall be thy hire; hence it appears that Laban through envy and covetousness did break his agreement made with Jacob, and altered it as he thought meet, and that Jacob patiently yielded to all such changes.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
If he said thus, the speckled shall be thy wages,…. Sometimes Laban would say to Jacob, only the speckled lambs which the ewes shall bring forth shall be thine hire, and not the spotted; or the ringstraked, or the brown, which according to the bargain should have been his, the one and the other:
then all the cattle bare speckled; that season, God ordering it so in his providence, that Laban might be disappointed, and Jacob might have his full hire; that is, the greatest part of the cattle bore such, as Ben Melech observes:
and if he said thus, the ringstraked shall be thine hire; observing the cattle to bring forth only speckled, or the greatest part such, then he changed his hire, and would have it be not the speckled, nor the brown, only the ringstraked, there being none or few of that colour the last yeaning time:
then bare all the cattle ringstraked; or the greatest part of them were such; so that let Laban fix on what colour he would as Jacob’s wages, there were sure to be the greatest part of that colour; which shows the hand of God in it, as is next observed by Jacob.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
Ver. 8. Ring-straked. ] See Trapp on “ Gen 30:39 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 30:32
Reciprocal: Gen 30:43 – General Gen 31:1 – Jacob