Genesis 30:39 - Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ The flocks bred and conceived in sight of the rods and brought forth lambs and kids streaked, speckled, and spotted.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

Common English Bible

³⁹ When the flock mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to striped, speckled, and spotted young.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁹ 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.

English Standard Version 2016

³⁹ the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

Genesis 30:39 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 30:38

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.

Genesis 30:40

And Jacob divided the flock, and he set the branches in the troughs before the eyes of the rams. Now whatever was white or black belonged to Laban, but, in truth, the others belonged to Jacob, for the flocks were dispersed among one another.

Genesis 31:38

For what reason have I been with you for twenty years? Your ewes and she-goats were not barren; the rams of your flocks I did not consume.

Genesis 31:40

Day and night, I was burned by heat and by frost, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 31:42

If the God of my father Abraham and the fear of Isaac had not been close to me, perhaps by now you would have sent me away naked. But God looked kindly on my affliction and the labor of my hands, and he rebuked you yesterday."

Genesis 31:8

Whenever he said, 'The speckled will be your wages,' all the sheep gave birth to speckled newborns. Yet truly, when he said the contrary, 'You will take whatever is white for your wages,' all the flocks gave birth to white ones.