Genesis 30:35 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The he-goats that were ring-straked, which had lines or strakes like bands about them of diverse colours from the rest of their body. Every one that had some white: this word some is oft understood in other texts of Scripture, and here it is so necessarily; as appears both from the thing itself, as it is related, and from the phrase; for he saith not that was white, but that had white in it, to wit, mixed with other colours.

Genesis 30:35

35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.