And Jacob took rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the hollows in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goes to his lasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like him in his beauty.