Genesis 30:40-42

Modern English Version

⁴⁰ Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the brown in the flock of Laban. He put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s sheep. ⁴¹ Whenever the stronger sheep mated, Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the troughs, so that they might mate among the rods. ⁴² But when the livestock were feeble, he did not put them in. So the weaker were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s.