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.
Genesis 30:39 - Revised Version 1885 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstraked, 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 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.
And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock.
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstraked.