Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
I will pass through all thy flock - tson , implying, as we have before seen, all smaller cattle, such as sheep, goats, etc.
All the speckled and spotted cattle - seh , which we translate cattle, signifies the young either of sheep or goats, what we call a lamb or a kid. Speckled, nakod , signifies interspersed with variously colored spots.
Spotted - talu , spotted with large spot either of the same or different colors, from tala , to patch, to make party-colored or patch-work; see Ezekiel 16:16. I have never seen such sheep as are here described but in the islands of Zetland. There I have seen the most beautiful brown, or fine chocolate color among the sheep; and several of the ring-streaked, spotted, speckled, and piebald among the same; and some of the latter description I have brought over, and can exhibit a specimen of Jacob' s flock brought from the North Seas, feeding in Middlesex.
And all the brown - chum . I should rather suppose this to signify a lively brown, as the root signifies to be warm or hot.
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