39And it came to pass that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and speckled.


In Context

36 And he set the space of three days' journey betwixt himself and his son in law, who fed the rest of his flock.

37 And Jacob took green robs of poplar, and of almond, and of place trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole remained green: and by this means the colour was divers.

38 And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out: that when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive.

39 And it came to pass that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and speckled.

40 And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams: and all the white and the black were Laban's: and the rest were Jacob's, when the flocks were separated one from the other.

41 So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the roughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them:

Genesis 30:39 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

30:39they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

30:39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:39And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:39The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

30:39and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted ones.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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