Have you ever read the story of Jacob stripping bark off tree limbs in order to get his sheep to give birth to streaked, speckled, or spotted offspring? It is from this week’s Torah parashah Vayetze and you can find it in Genesis chapter 30. Having completed his fourteen years of labor, as payment to…
In contextual contrast, right after God describes the hybridization of the human race by the fallen Watchers in Genesis 6:1-7 (see also Enoch and Jubilees 6), the scriptures purposely contrast that Noach was pure in his genealogy (inferring inherited DNA) in Genesis 1:8-9 setting the scene for why he was saved.!