39 And the sheep [a]were in heat before the rods, and afterward brought forth young of parti-color, and with small and great spots.

40 And Jacob parted these lambs, and turned the faces of the flock towards those lambs parti-colored, and all manner of black, among the sheep of Laban: so he put his own flock by themselves, and put them not with Laban’s flock.

41 And in every ramming time of the [b]stronger sheep, Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the gutters, that they might conceive before the rods.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:39 Or, received.
  2. Genesis 30:41 As they which took the ram about September and brought forth about March: so the feebler in March, and lamb in September.

39 they mated in front of the branches.(A) And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.(B) 40 Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals(C) that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban’s animals. 41 Whenever the stronger females were in heat,(D) Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,(E)

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