Then he put a three-day’s journey between them and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding Laban’s remaining flocks.
On that day he removed the colorfully striped and colorful billy goats as well as all the colorfully spotted goats—everyone with white on it—and every dark-colored one among the lambs, and he put them in the hand of his sons.
But Jacob took fresh white poplar, almond, and plane tree branches, peeled away white stripped sections on them, exposing the white of the branches.
When Laban was told on the third day after Jacob had fled,