Genesis 30:35

וַיָּסַר בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא אֶת־הַתְּיָשִׁים הָֽעֲקֻדִּים וְהַטְּלֻאִים וְאֵת כָּל־הָֽעִזִּים הַנְּקֻדּוֹת וְהַטְּלֻאֹת כֹּל אֲשֶׁר־לָבָן בּוֹ וְכָל־חוּם בַּכְּשָׂבִים וַיִּתֵּן בְּיַד־בָּנָֽיו׃

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Hebrew

וַיָּ֣סַר בַּיּוֹם֩ הַה֨וּא אֶת־הַתְּיָשִׁ֜ים הָֽעֲקֻדִּ֣ים וְהַטְּלֻאִ֗ים וְאֵ֤ת כָּל־הָֽעִזִּים֙ הַנְּקֻדּ֣וֹת וְהַטְּלֻאֹ֔ת כֹּ֤ל אֲשֶׁר־לָבָן֙ בּ֔וֹ וְכָל־ח֖וּם בַּכְּשָׂבִ֑ים וַיִּתֵּ֖ן בְּיַד־בָּנָֽיו׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ διέστειλεν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τοὺς τράγους τοὺς ῥαντοὺς καὶ τοὺς διαλεύκους, καὶ πάσας τὰς αἶγας τὰς ῥαντὰς καὶ τὰς διαλεύκους, καὶ πᾶν ὃ ἦν λευκὸν ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ πᾶν ὃ ἦν φαιὸν ἐν τοῖς ἄρνασιν, καὶ ἔδωκεν διὰ χειρὸς τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Et separavit in die illa capras, et oves, et hircos, et arietes varios, atque maculosos: cunctum autem gregem unicolorem, id est albi et nigri velleris, tradidit in manu filiorum suorum.

Spanish

Pero ese mismo día, Labán apartó los chivos rayados y manchados, y todas las cabras moteadas y manchadas, es decir, todos los que tenían alguna mancha blanca, junto con todas las ovejas negras, y los puso al cuidado de sus hijos.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y apartó aquel día los machos de cabrío rayados y manchados; y todas las cabras manchadas y de color vario, y toda res que tenía en sí algo de blanco, y todas las de color oscuro entre las ovejas, y púsolas en manos de sus hijos;

English

That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat — every one that had any white on it — and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.

✦ What the text says

Summary

The verse narrates that on that same day, an unnamed subject (contextually Laban) removed the striped and spotted male goats, the speckled and spotted female goats, every animal with white markings, and every dark-colored lamb, placing them under the care of his sons.

Key words

va-i.Ya.sar ("he removed", H5493G) — hiphil (causative) narrative verb; the causative stem indicates the subject actively caused the separation of the animals, not merely that they were separated.
'a.ku.Dim ("striped", H6124) — masculine plural adjective describing the te.ya.Shim ("male goats", H8495); part of a series of coat-pattern terms distinguishing animal types.
ne.ku.Dot ("speckled", H5348) — feminine plural adjective, agreeing with 'i.Zim ("female goats", H5795); the feminine forms throughout this clause match the grammatical gender of the goats.
la.Van ("white", H3836) — masculine singular adjective following the relative 'a.Sher ("that/who", H0834A), forming the clause "that which was white on it."
be.yad-ba.Na-v ("in the hand of his sons", H3027H/H1121A) — construct chain yad + ba.Na meaning literally "hand of sons," a Hebrew idiom for entrusting something to someone's care or authority.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built on two narrative verbs connected by the vav-consecutive: va-i.Ya.sar ("and he removed") and va-i.yi.Ten ("and he gave"), both hiphil/qal narrative forms that carry the story forward in sequence — first the separation, then the handing-over. The direct objects of the first verb are marked twice by 'et (H0853), an untranslatable marker indicating that what follows is the grammatical object: first the male goats with their two descriptors ('a.ku.Dim, "striped," and te.lu.'Im, "spotted," H2921, a qal passive participle functioning as an adjective), then the female goats with parallel feminine descriptors (ne.ku.Dot, "speckled," and te.lu.'Ot, "spotted," feminine form of the same participle).

After this, the text adds a summarizing relative clause, kol 'asher-lavan bo ("all that white was in it"), which functions as a catch-all category beyond the specific listed patterns. The construct phrase kol chum ba-ke.sa.Vim ("all dark [one] among the lambs") extends the list to a different animal category (ke.sa.Vim, "lambs," H3775) rather than goats. The final clause uses the idiom be-yad-banav ("in the hand of his sons"), where yad ("hand," H3027H) in construct with banav ("his sons") conveys custodial control rather than literal physical hand-holding.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders va-i.Ya.sar with διέστειλεν ("he divided/separated"), a non-causative verb, whereas the Hebrew hiphil form more directly implies "he caused to be removed." The Vulgate's separavit ("he separated") aligns with the LXX's sense of division rather than the causative removal implied by the Hebrew stem. The Vulgate also adds "capras, et oves" (goats and sheep) at the start of its list, a structural difference not present in the Hebrew word order, which begins directly with the male goats (te.ya.Shim).

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.