Genesis 30:39

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle striped with bands, speckled, and spotted.

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

In Context

38And he set the rods which he had stripped 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.

40And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped with bands, 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.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:9Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

Genesis 31:38This twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten.

Genesis 31:42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely you had sent me away now empty. God has seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked you last night.

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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