Genesis 30:40
38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.
41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
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Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Men lammene skilte Jakob ut og lot småfeet vende øynene mot det stripete og alt det sorte blant Labans småfe; og slik fikk han seg flokker for seg selv og slapp dem ikke sammen med Labans småfe.
- OTB
- Jakob skilte lammene, og fikk flokkene til å vende seg mot de stripete og alle de mørkfargede dyrene i Labans flokk; og han satte sine egne flokker for seg selv, og satte dem ikke sammen med Labans flokk.
- B1930
- Men lammene skilte Jakob ut og lot småfeet vende øinene mot det stripete og alt det sorte blandt Labans småfe; og således fikk han sig hjorder for sig selv og slapp dem ikke sammen med Labans småfe.
- BSB
- Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
- KJV
- And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.
- WEB
- Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.
- ASV
- And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban`s flock.
- DARBY
- And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he made himself separate flocks, and did not put them with Laban's flock.
- BLB
- And Jacob separated the lambs, and he set the face [of] the flock toward the striped, and all the brown in the flock of Laban. And he set for himself flocks by themselves, and he did not set them with the flock of Laban.