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 30:41 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs, in full view of the flocks, and they would breed in front of the branches. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And whenever the stronger animals were breeding, Jacob laid the rods in the watering troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed and conceive among the rods. American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; Common English Bible Whenever the strongest of the flock mated, Jacob put the branches in front of them near the watering troughs so that they mated near the branches. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, when the first to arrive were climbing on the ewes, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams and the sheep, so that they might conceive while they were gazing upon them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them. |
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.
As for the weaklings of the flocks, he did not put out the branches. So it turned out that the weak sheep belonged to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.