Genesis 30:38

American Standard Version

And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.

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Genesis 30:38 in other translations

He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

Genesis 30:38 · World English Bible

Genesis 30:38 in context

  1. 36and he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
  2. 37And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
  3. 38And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.
  4. 39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
  5. 40And 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.