Genesis 30:38-40

The Voice

³⁸ He set the striped branches in front of the flocks in the troughs—the water troughs, that is—where they came to drink. Since they would mate when they came to drink, ³⁹ the flocks mated in front of the branches and produced young that were striped, speckled, and spotted. ⁴⁰ Jacob separated these newly born lambs from Laban’s flock, and when they mated again he faced Laban’s animals toward the striped and black animals. He kept his own droves separate from Laban’s. This is how he increased his own flock.