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Genesis 30:38

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36And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.Select Genesis 30:36

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.Select Genesis 30:37

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.Select Genesis 30:38

39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.Select Genesis 30:39

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.Select Genesis 30:40

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30:38 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.

ASV

30:38 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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