'Goats' in the Bible

Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I'll prepare them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.

Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.

So that day Laban removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted (all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care of his sons.

"Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Then he said, 'Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

"I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,