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Jacob Tends the Spotted Flocks

Name: Jacob Tends the Spotted Flocks
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Jacob is shown among the goats of the encampment, tending the speckled and spotted animals near the tents of the household. The scene points to the account in Genesis 30, where Jacob separates the marked sheep and goats from Laban’s flocks and receives them as his wages. The patterned animals become a visible sign of God’s providence amid labor, family conflict, and covenant promise. With herds grazing across the hillside and a servant at work nearby, the composition emphasizes pastoral life in the patriarchal age: tents, livestock, daily provision, and the quiet unfolding of divine blessing through ordinary work. This artwork serves well for teaching on Jacob, stewardship, God’s faithfulness, and the Genesis narratives of the patriarchs.

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Keywords	genesis jacob Laban speckled flocks spotted goats
Secondary Keywords	encampment flocks goats livestock patriarchs providence tents wages
Tertiary Keywords	animal husbandry Bible lesson covenant family divine blessing Genesis 30 pastoral life stewardship
Scriptures	Genesis 30:32-43 Genesis 31:8-12 Genesis 30 32 let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages. 33 So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.” 34 Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.” 35 But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons. 36 And he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban's flock. 37 Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks. 38 He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink, 39 the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted. 40 And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban's flock. 41 Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob would lay the sticks in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the sticks, 42 but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. 43 Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. Genesis 31 8 If he said, ‘The spotted shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, ‘The striped shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore striped. 9 Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me. 10 In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the goats that mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled. 11 Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am!’ 12 And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

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Jacob Tends the Spotted Flocks

Genesis 30

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