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


In Context

36 Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban's flocks.

37 Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

38 Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

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

40 Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban's animals.

41 Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

30:39And 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.

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.