And whenever the stronger ones of the flock became with young, Jacob put the sticks in front of them in the drinking-places, so that they might become with young when they saw the sticks.
And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get water; and they became with young when they came to the water.
These lambs Jacob kept separate; and he put his flock in a place by themselves and not with Laban's flock.
But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.