#1. Laban is taking all of Jacob’s beloved striped cattle. Jacob is left with boring plain-colored cattle, which he doesn’t seem to like at all. Jacob's cunning plan: he gets some sticks and paints stripes on them. He then plants them next to his cattle. What Jacob thinks is that if he gets his cattle to look at the striped sticks while copulating, then they will give birth to striped young.
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