He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep #– #in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink.
Genesis 30:39 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The flocks bred and conceived in sight of the rods and brought forth lambs and kids streaked, speckled, and spotted. American Standard Version (1901) And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted. Common English Bible When the flock mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to striped, speckled, and spotted young. Catholic Public Domain Version And it happened that, in the very heat of joining together, the sheep looked upon the branches, and they bore the blemished and the variegated, those speckled with diverse color. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And it came to pass that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and speckled. |
He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep #– #in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink.
Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face the streaked sheep and the completely dark sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and didn’t put them with Laban’s sheep.
I’ve been with you these twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams from your flock.
There I was #– #the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and he issued his verdict last night.’
If he said, “The spotted sheep will be your wages,” then all the sheep were born spotted. If he said, “The streaked sheep will be your wages,” then all the sheep were born streaked.