Genesis 30:42

But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.

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But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

In Context

41And whenever the stronger ones of the flock became with young, Jacob put the sticks in front of them in the drinking-places, so that they might become with young when they saw the sticks.

43So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and asses.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:12And he said, See how all the he-goats are banded and marked and coloured: for I have seen what Laban has done to you.

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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