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Genesis 30:39
“And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.”
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Genesis 30:39 Context
36And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. 37And 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. 38And 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. 39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. 40And 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. 41And 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. 42But 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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Translation Details for Genesis 30:39
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
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Wesley's Notes for Genesis 30:39
30:37 Here is Jacob's policy to make his bargain more advantageous to himself than it was likely to be: and if he had not taken some course to help himself, it would have been an ill bargain indeed; which he knew Laban would never have considered, who did not consult any one's interest but his own. Now Jacob's contrivances were, He set pilled sticks before the cattle where they were watered, that looking much at those unusual party - coloured sticks, by the power of imagination, they might bring forth young ones in like manner party - coloured. Probably this custom was commonly used by the shepherds of Canaan, who coveted to have their cattle of this motly colour. When he began to have a flock of ring - straked and brown, he contrived to set them first, and to put the faces of the rest towards them, with the same design as he did the former. Whether this was honest policy, or no, may admit of a question. Read #Ge 31:7 |- 16, and the question is resolved.
And the flockes conceiued before the rods, and brought forth cattell ringstraked, speckled and spotted.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour.
- Basic English Bible
And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
- Darby Bible
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.
- Webster's Bible
The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
- World English Bible
and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-straked, speckled, and spotted ones.
- Youngs Literal Bible
And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible