Genesis 30:39

New American Bible - revised edition

the goats mated by the shoots, and so they gave birth to streaked, speckled and spotted young.

Cross References

Genesis 30:38

The shoots that he had peeled he then set upright in the watering troughs where the animals came to drink, so that they would be in front of them. When the animals were in heat as they came to drink,

Genesis 30:40

The sheep, on the other hand, Jacob kept apart, and he made these animals face the streaked or completely dark animals of Laban. Thus he produced flocks of his own, which he did not put with Laban’s flock.

Genesis 31:38

“In the twenty years that I was under you, no ewe or she-goat of yours ever miscarried, and I have never eaten rams of your flock.

Genesis 31:40

Often the scorching heat devoured me by day, and the frost by night, while 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 on my side, you would now have sent me away empty-handed. But God saw my plight and the fruits of my toil, and last night he reproached you.”

Genesis 31:8

Whenever your father said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wages,’ the entire flock would bear speckled young; whenever he said, ‘The streaked animals will be your wages,’ the entire flock would bear streaked young.