Jacob asked for the speckled and spotted sheep from his father-in-law, Laban. I love it when he didn't ask for the unblemished white sheep. But he chose the secondary. It is just as how the faithful Abraham allowed his nephew Lot to pick the best part of the land, leaving Abraham with the secondary, the least.
But Jacob somehow knew that he will receive the blessings through those blemished sheep. He reposition them in faith. He takes the rods and stripped the browns until the whites appeared on the rods. Then he put the stripped rods among the strongest blemished sheep as they breed so that they may breed more.
"Whenever the stronger livestock conceived that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the gutters, that they might concieve among the rods... so the feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's." -Gen 30:41-42
Was Jacob clever? Does he thinks so? In Genesis 31:9, Jacob responded to this question, "[No,] God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me." Jacob simply knew that God will bless him as He had done. He took the blemished so that God's name may be glorified through this.
Jacob positioned the least, God poured the blessings.
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