Then he set the branches he had peeled in front of the flocks in the drinking troughs and watering channels where the flocks come to drink. Since they were in heat when they came to drink,
Genesis 30:39 - Tree of Life Version the flocks mated near the branches, and the flocks gave birth to striped, spotted and colorful ones. 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. |
Then he set the branches he had peeled in front of the flocks in the drinking troughs and watering channels where the flocks come to drink. Since they were in heat when they came to drink,
Now Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped ones as well as all the dark-colored ones among Laban’s flocks. Then he set aside the herds for himself and did not put them with Laban’s flocks.
These past twenty years I’ve been with you, your ewes and female goats have never miscarried, and I’ve never eaten the rams of your flock.
I was consumed by heat during the day, consumed by frost during the night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Had I not had the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, you would have sent me away empty-handed now. But God saw my misery and the toil of my hands and last night He became the Judge.”
If he would say, ‘the spotted ones will be your salary,’ then the flocks would give birth to spotted ones. Or if he would say, ‘the striped ones will be your salary,’ then all the flocks would give birth to striped ones.