Genesis 30:37-40

Living Bible

³⁷Then Jacob took fresh shoots from poplar, almond, and sycamore trees, and peeled white streaks in them, ³⁸and placed these rods beside the watering troughs so that Laban’s flocks would see them when they came to drink; for that is when they mated. ^39-40So the flocks mated before the white-streaked rods, and their offspring were streaked and spotted, and Jacob added them to his flock. Then he divided out the ewes from Laban’s flock and segregated them from the rams, and let them mate only with Jacob’s black rams. Thus he built his flocks from Laban’s.

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Genesis 30:37-39

New International Version

³⁷Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond^(A) and plane trees^(B) and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.^(C) ³⁸Then he placed the peeled branches^(D) in all the watering troughs,^(E) so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat^(F) and came to drink, ³⁹they mated in front of the branches.^(G) And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.^(H)

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Genesis 30:37-39

New King James Version

³⁷Now ^(A)Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods. ³⁸And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink. ³⁹So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

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