Genesis 30:39-41

Lexham English Bible

³⁹ And the flocks mated by the branches, so the flocks bore streaked, speckled, and spotted. ⁴⁰ And Jacob separated the lambs and turned the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark-colored in Laban’s flocks. And he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with the flocks of Laban. ⁴¹ And whenever any of the stronger of the flocks were in heat, Jacob put the branches in full view^[a] of the flock in the troughs that they might mate among the branches.