Genesis 30:38-40

New Catholic Bible

³⁸ He then took the shoots from which he had peeled the bark and he placed them in the channels, that is, in the watering troughs where the animals came to drink. They were placed where the animals could see them, and the animals mated when they came to drink. ³⁹ Thus, the animals mated in the sight of the shoots, and the goats had kids that were streaked, speckled, and spotted.^[a]

⁴⁰ As for the sheep, Jacob separated them and had them face the animals that were streaked or fully dark of the flock of Laban. He put his own flock in a separate place; he did not put them together with Laban’s flock.