And he set the rods which he had peeled 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.
Genesis 30:39 - King James 2000 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth flocks striped, speckled, and spotted. 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. |
And he set the rods which he had peeled 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.
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not with Laban's flock.
This twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten.
Thus I was; in the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.
If he said thus, The speckled shall be your wages; then all the cattle bore speckled: and if he said thus, The striped shall be your wages; then bore all the flock striped.