Genesis 30:39

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

in front of the branches, and their young were spotted and speckled.

Cross References

Genesis 30:38

Then he put the branches where the sheep and goats would see them while they were drinking from the water trough. The goats mated there

Genesis 30:40

Some of the sheep that Jacob was keeping for Laban were already spotted. And when the others were ready to mate, he made sure that they faced in the direction of the spotted and black ones. In this way, Jacob built up a flock of sheep for himself and did not put them with the other sheep.

Genesis 31:38

In all the twenty years that I've worked for you, not one of your sheep or goats has had a miscarriage, and I've never eaten even one of your rams.

Genesis 31:40

I sweated every day, and I couldn't sleep at night because of the cold.

Genesis 31:42

If the fearsome God worshipped by Abraham and my father Isaac had not been on my side, you would have sent me away without a thing. But God saw my hard work, and he knew the trouble I was in, so he helped me. Then last night he told you how wrong you were.

Genesis 31:8

When your father said the speckled sheep would be my wages, all of them were speckled. And when he said the spotted ones would be mine, all of them were spotted.