Genesis 30:41

A Conservative Version

And it came to pass, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods,

Cross References

Genesis 30:38

And he set the rods which he had peeled before 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 ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban. And he put his own herds apart, and did not put them near Laban's flock.

Genesis 30:42

but when the flock were weak, he did not put them in. So the weaker were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.