Genesis 30:39 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁹ And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstraked, 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

And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.

Genesis 30:40

And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock.

Genesis 31:38

This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.

Genesis 31:40

Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

Genesis 31:42

Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

Genesis 31:8

If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstraked.