(Now Ya•a•qovꞋ had been tending the tzon for 14 years. He'd become very savvy at animal husbandry and he knew that less than 25% of newborn goats and sheep were all-white. More than ¾ of the sheep and goats had some kind of color, spots, speckles or blotches. So he strategized that he would sell a deal to Lâ•vânꞋ to take all of the all-white animals, which produced more expensive wool, allowing Ya•a•qovꞋ to walk away with over ¾ of both tzon!)

"Don't give me anything!" Ya•a•qovꞋ replied. "If you'll do this one thing for me then I'll graze your tzon another season and watchguard over them and develop for you tzon that produce the most expensive white wool and angora: an all-white herd of goats and an all-white flock of sheep. I'll go through all of your tzon and I'll take just the inferior animals – the dark sheep and the speckled and speckled goats – for my salary. Whereas you had little when I came, I'll leave you with a herd of all-white goats plus a flock of all-white sheep!!!"

"So my tzëdꞋëq shall answer for me in future when you will come upon my salary, seeing my tzon before you. Every goat that lacks a spot, speckle or blotch, or any sheep that isn't dark, in my tzon, it's stolen!"

"As long as it goes according to your word," Lâ•vânꞋ agreed.

li•vᵊn•ëhꞋ1 – poplar bowl blanks (photo: toolsandtimber); enlarged: tree, photo © 2005-​2015 Martha Modzele­vich, Flowers in Israel.

So that day Ya•a•qovꞋ removed all of the billy-goats and doe goats that had stripes, spots or patches in their white, and all of the brown sheep; all of these non-white goats and sheep Ya•a•qovꞋ transferred to his sons to herd.

Then Lâ•vânꞋ put 3 days of the way between himself and Ya•a•qovꞋ with the non-white tzon. So Ya•a•qovꞋ took over as shepherd of the non-white livestock he had raised while working for Lâ•vânꞋ.

luz2 – ceremonial magic (wicca) bitter-almond wand. Since eating bitter-almond nuts can cause vertigo (Toomey, etc.), water in which the wood was soaked and gnawed would likely have produced similar side effects; enlarged: almond tree in blossom (photo: Sara Rivka, creativejewishmom).

Then Ya•a•qovꞋ took sticks of green li•vᵊn•ëhꞋ,¹ luz² and a•rᵊm•ōnꞋ³ and stripped off the bark down to the white phloem of the sticks. Then he set the sticks, stripped of bark, in the shallow, hollowed-out log watering-troughs; so that the tzon had to drink around the sticks, gnawing at the sticks, ingesting its chemicals, to get the water around the sticks. Thus, the tzon were separated into groups, watered at different times: undesirable males were rendered infertile, the selected males were energized to mate and the selected females were sedated and docile—to generate the desired non-white offspring!

Then he presented the sticks. which he had peeled, in the watering-troughs, in the drinking water, where the tzon came to drink, confronting the tzon. So when the different groups were in heat, they conceived (or not) by their drinking: mostly striped, speckled or patched.

(Lathe-) turned plate of London-​Plane wood (Platanus x acerifolia; photo wood-​database), closest wood I could find to (see enlarged) a•rᵊm•ōnꞋ3 – the Israeli Plane tree (Platanus orientalis, Kibbutz Hagoshrim; photo © 2005-​2015 Martha Modzelevich, Flowers in Israel.

Ya•a•qovꞋ separated the offspring lambs similarly. Further, Lâ•vânꞋ's all-white livestock often produced offspring that were dark, striped, speckled or patched. So Ya•a•qovꞋ integrated all of those dark, striped, speckled or patched into his own tzon, which he kept separate, careful that his non-white tzon didn't mate with Lâ•vânꞋ's all-white livestock.

Within his own tzon, Ya•a•qovꞋ used the same techniques with the different sticks in the watering troughs of the tzon, to encourage the stronger livestock to breed and the weaker animals not to breed; thus developing his own breeds of stronger animals and stronger, more valuable, tzon. Thus, Lâ•vânꞋ's livestock, though they were all-white, bred increasingly anemic while Ya•a•qovꞋ's tzon, though not all-white, were genetically more varied, breeding increasingly stronger, sturdier, healthier—and more valuable. As a result, Ya•a•qovꞋ's wealth prospered exceedingly. He developed large tzon and, to maintain his increasing tzon and wealth, acquired increasing maids and kitchen help along with ranch hands (who acted as armed militia when needed to protect his tzon and grazing lands), camels and donkeys to run his prosperous, burgeoning empire.