Genesis 30:38 - Easy To Read Version

Jacob put the branches in front of the flocks at the watering places. When the animals came to drink, they also mated in that place.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred and conceived when they came to drink,

American Standard Version (1901)

And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.

Common English Bible

He set the branches that he had peeled near the watering troughs so that they were in front of the flock when they drank, because they often mated when they came to drink.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he placed them in the troughs, where the water was poured out, so that when the flocks had arrived to drink, they would have the branches before their eyes, and in their sight they might conceive.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out: that when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive.

Genesis 30:38 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 30:37

So Jacob cut green branches from poplar and almond trees. Jacob stripped off some of the bark so that the branches had white stripes on them.

Genesis 30:39

Then when the goats mated in front of the branches, the young that were born were spotted, striped, or black.

Genesis 30:41

Any time the stronger animals in the flock were mating, Jacob put the branches before their eyes. The animals mated near those branches.