Three days journey; understand it of the journeying or travelling of sheep, not of men. He did this lest either Jacob should mingle and exchange the sheep, or the sheep, by the contemplation of the diverse coloured ones, should bring forth others like to them.
Related Commentaries of Genesis 30:36
Genesis 30:36
36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.