Comentário sobre Gênesis 30:37
וַיִּֽקַּֽח־ל֣וֹ יַעֲקֹ֗ב מַקַּ֥ל לִבְנֶ֛ה לַ֖ח וְל֣וּז וְעֶרְמ֑וֹן וַיְפַצֵּ֤ל בָּהֵן֙ פְּצָל֣וֹת לְבָנ֔וֹת מַחְשֹׂף֙ הַלָּבָ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־הַמַּקְלֽוֹת׃
<span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Tudo isto é visão profética, não significa que Jacob realmente fizera isto, como pode-se entender no cap. seguinte, e conforme aparece no relato de José no cap. 37:7.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">Então tomou Jacó</span> varas verdes de <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Árvore produtora de resina odorífera, que era usada no Templo.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">estoraque</span>, <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Muito bem traduzido! O nome hebraico “Luz” não é de simples reconhecimento, e escrevera Rabi Abraham Ibn-’Ezrá (sec. x) que assim identificara r. Sa’ádia (sec. viii) a árvore, devido ao parentesco entre o árabe, o aramaico e o hebraico.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">de amendoeira</span> e de <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Não confundir com “plátano” em castelhano, ou bananeira, que é inexistente no Oriente Médio, sendo possível seu cultivo somente com a tecnologia moderna. Trata-se de uma árvore frondosa, infrutífera, cujas sementes se penduram como nozes. Suas folhagens são semelhantes à videira.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">plátano</span> e, descascando nelas riscas brancas, descobriu o branco que nelas havia;
Rashi on Genesis
Ramban on Genesis
Now some commentators166R’dak. say that the first year [Jacob did not make use of these sticks, but] there were born to him many speckled and spotted ones by virtue of G-d’s blessing which the angel showed him.167Further, 31:12. And then he put the sticks in front of those which were his so that they should give birth in their form. This would prevent Laban from saying that their offspring was stolen by Jacob, [as he would have claimed had they given birth to other colored offspring].
This is the meaning of whensoever the stronger flocks became heated,168Verse 41 here. referring to those that had been born to Jacob by way of G-d’s blessing; but when the flocks of Laban were feeble, he put them not in; so that the feebler were Laban’s, for they did not give birth to speckled ones, and the stronger were all Jacob’s,165Verse 42 here. including their offspring, for they gave birth to speckled ones.