Genesis 30:37-39

Modern English Version

³⁷ Then Jacob took rods of fresh-cut poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white which was in the rods. ³⁸ He set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink, so that they would mate when they came to drink. ³⁹ The flocks mated before the rods and gave birth to young that were striped, speckled, and spotted.