Genesis 30:39

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

they should have the rods before their eyes, and they should conceive in [the] sight of the rods. And it was done that in that heat of riding, or engendering, the sheep should behold those rods, and that they should bring forth spotted beasts, and diverse, and besprinkled with diverse colour.

Cross References

Genesis 30:38

And Jacob put those rods in the troughs, where the water was poured out, that when the flocks should come to drink,

Genesis 30:40

And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the [water] troughs, before the eyes of the rams. Soothly all the white and [the] black were Laban’s; soothly all the others were Jacob’s; for the flocks were separated betwixt themselves.

Genesis 31:38

Was I not with thee therefore twenty years? Thy sheep and goats were not barren, I ate not the rams of thy flock,

Genesis 31:40

I was anguished in day and night with heat and frost, and sleep fled from mine eyes;

Genesis 31:42

But if [the] God of my father Abraham, and the dread of Isaac had not helped me, peradventure now thou haddest left me naked; the Lord hath beheld my tormenting and the travail of mine hands, and reproved thee yesterday.

Genesis 31:8

If he said any time, Diversely-coloured sheep shall be thy meed, all the sheep brought forth diversely-coloured lambs; forsooth when he said, on the contrary, Thou shalt take all the white for thy meed, all the flocks brought forth white beasts;