Genesis 30:39

And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

38And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get water; and they became with young when they came to the water.

40These lambs Jacob kept separate; and he put his flock in a place by themselves and not with Laban's flock.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:9So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

Genesis 31:38These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.

Genesis 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:38-43

Jacob's Ingenious Policy. ( b. c. 1745.) 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. 39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. 40 And Jacob did separate… Read the whole commentary →

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