Genesis 30:38 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³⁸ He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep #– #in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ 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

³⁸ 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)

³⁸ 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

³⁸ 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

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ 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

Jacob then took branches of fresh poplar, almond, and plane wood, and peeled the bark, exposing white stripes on the branches.

Genesis 30:39

The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young.

Genesis 30:41

Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs, in full view of the flocks, and they would breed in front of the branches.