Genesis 30:39 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁹ the flocks bred in front of the rods, and so the flocks produced young that were striped, speckled, and spotted.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ The flocks bred and conceived in sight of the rods and brought forth lambs and kids streaked, speckled, and spotted.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

Common English Bible

³⁹ When the flock mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to striped, speckled, and spotted young.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ And it happened that, in the very heat of joining together, the sheep looked upon the branches, and they bore the blemished and the variegated, those speckled with diverse color.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁹ And it came to pass that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and speckled.

Genesis 30:39 Cross References

Genesis 30:38

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

Genesis 30:40

Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and the completely black animals in the flock of Laban, and he put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

Genesis 31:38

These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.

Genesis 31:40

It was like this with me: by day the heat consumed me and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 31:42

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.”

Genesis 31:8

If he said, ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled, and if he said, ‘The striped shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore striped.