Genesis 30:39

Modern English Version

The flocks mated before the rods and gave birth to young that were striped, speckled, and spotted.

Cross References

Genesis 30:38

He set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink, so that they would mate when they came to drink.

Genesis 30:40

Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the brown in the flock of Laban. He put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s sheep.

Genesis 31:38

“This twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and the male goats of your flock I have not eaten.

Genesis 31:40

It was like this with me: In the day the heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 31:42

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely you would have sent me away empty now. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.”

Genesis 31:8

If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock produced speckled. If he said, ‘The striped will be your pay,’ then all the flock produced striped.