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Jacob with the Flock of Laban
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Jacob, having been deceived by his uncle Laban for fourteen years, eventually retailiated. Laban told Jacob that he might have any speckled sheep in his flock, having first hidden all the speckled sheep in his flock. Jacob half-peeled sticks and placed them in the water before the white sheep as they came down to drink. Faced with these stripes the sheep miraculously conceived speckled young which Jacob was able to claim for himself. After six years he amassed a vast flock of speckled sheep and took them away.
Shown is Jacob with the Flock of Laban by Jusepe de Ribera (1591?-1652). Painted in 1638, it is in the National Gallery, London.
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More Christian art is at Abraham to Zacharias
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