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.
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and did not put them with Laban’s cattle.
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.
If he said thus, The speckled shall be your wages; then all the cattle bore speckled: and if he said thus, The striped shall be your hire; then bore all the cattle striped.