Genesis 30:36-38

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁶ And he set the space of three days' journey betwixt himself and his son in law, who fed the rest of his flock.

³⁷ And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole remained green: and by this means the colour was divers.

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.