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Genesis 30:39

37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

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.

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

40 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.

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BSB
they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
KJV
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
WEB
The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
ASV
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
DARBY
And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
BLB
And the flock conceived before the rods, and the flock brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted ones.
ÅB
Så parret småfeet seg ved kjeppene og fikk stripete, flekkete og spraglete unger.
OTB
Flokkene parret seg ved stavene, og flokkene fødte unger som var stripete, prikkete og flekkete.
B1930
Så parret småfeet sig ved kjeppene og fikk stripete, flekkete og spraglete unger.

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  • Exodus 12:35–36

    And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:

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  • Genesis 31:40

    Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

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  • Genesis 31:38

    This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

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  • Genesis 31:42

    Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

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  • Genesis 31:9–12

    Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

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