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If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white ones for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.
4142. 'And the God of your father spoke to me last night' means that the Divine did not allow it. This becomes clear without explanation, for he was forbidden in a dream to speak to Jacob 'either good or evil', as also in the words that follow here.
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