Genesis 30:36-38

New Life Version

³⁶ Then he traveled three days away from Jacob. And Jacob was left to care for the rest of Laban’s flocks.

³⁷ Then Jacob took green sticks of three kinds of trees. And he cut white marks in them, showing the white which was in the sticks. ³⁸ He took these sticks which he had cut and set them in front of the flocks, in the place where the flocks came to drink. And the animals mated when they came to drink.