Genesis 30:39-41

Modern English Version

³⁹ The flocks mated before the rods and gave birth to young that were striped, speckled, and spotted. ⁴⁰ Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the brown in the flock of Laban. He put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s sheep. ⁴¹ Whenever the stronger sheep mated, Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the troughs, so that they might mate among the rods.