Genesis 30:37-43

Bible Text

[37] Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. [38] He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink. [39] The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. [40] Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock. [41] It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; [42] but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. [43] The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and donkeys.