Genesis 30:40 - Easy To Read Version

⁴⁰ Jacob separated the spotted and the black animals from the other animals in the flock. Jacob kept his animals separate from Laban’s.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ Jacob separated the lambs, and [as he had done with the peeled rods] he also set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark in the [new] flock of Laban; and he put his own droves by themselves and did not let them breed with Laban's flock.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban’s flock.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ Jacob sorted out the lambs, turning the flock to face the striped and black ones in Laban’s flock but keeping his flock separate, setting them apart from Laban’s flock.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁰ And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams. And all the white and the black were Laban's: and the rest were Jacob's, when the flocks were separated one from the other.

Genesis 30:40 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 30:39

Then when the goats mated in front of the branches, the young that were born were spotted, striped, or black.

Genesis 30:41

Any time the stronger animals in the flock were mating, Jacob put the branches before their eyes. The animals mated near those branches.