Genesis 30:37 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁷ Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the rods.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ But Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white in the rods.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

Common English Bible

³⁷ Then Jacob took new branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees; and he peeled white stripes on them, exposing the branches’ white color.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ Then Jacob, taking green branches of poplar, and almond, and sycamore trees, debarked them in part. And when the bark was pulled off, in the parts that were stripped, there appeared whiteness, yet the parts that were left whole, remained green. And so, in this way the color was made variegated.

Genesis 30:37 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 30:36

and he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob; and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.

Genesis 30:38

He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the runnels, that is, the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,

Ecclesiastes 12:5

they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;

Jeremiah 1:11

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a rod of almond.”

Ezekiel 31:8

The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared with its branches; no tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.