And this is what he said, “My righteousness shall speak for me in time to come.”

There wasn’t one thing in the world to encourage him that one calf could ever be born from parents that were not spotted and be a spotted calf.

every man is the potential Jacob, and Jacob did it by righteousness

And he begins to assume that his world is peopled with the spotted calves, and everyone born that was healthy was born spotted.

He made a bargain with his uncle Laban that all the spotted and striped animals in the flocks were to be his, and Laban agreed, thinking Jacob would be little more than a slave

Though all the flock is brown, I will see them spotted in my mind’s eye. And that which was brought forth was brought forth in the image held.