Genesis 30:38-40

Expanded Bible

³⁸ He put the ·branches [rods] in front of the flocks at the watering ·places [troughs]. When the animals came to drink, they ·also mated there [^Lwere in heat], ³⁹ so the flocks mated in front of the branches [rods]. Then the young that were born were streaked, speckled, or spotted [^Csince nothing in Jacob’s strategy would have produced this result, God must have done it]. ⁴⁰ Jacob separated the young animals from the others, and he made them face the streaked and dark animals in Laban’s flock. Jacob kept his animals separate from Laban’s.