Genesis 30:39-41

Legacy Standard Bible

³⁹ So the flocks ^[a]mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted. ⁴⁰ And Jacob separated the lambs, and he ^[b]made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he set his own herds apart and did not set them with Laban’s flock. ⁴¹ Now it would be that, whenever the ^[c]stronger of the flock ^[d]were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the trough, so that they might ^[e]mate by the rods;