KJV King James Version
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.
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Genesis 30:37
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
WEB World English Bible
Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
ASV American Standard Version
And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Jacob taketh to himself a rod of fresh poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut, and doth peel in them white peelings, making bare the white that is on the rods,
Surrounding context — Genesis 30
34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, [and] every one that had [some] white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave [them] into the hand of his sons.
36 And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
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 the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, 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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וַיִּֽקַּֽח־H3947 · la.qachto take: takeל֣וֹH9033 · ohimיַעֲקֹ֗בH3290 · ya.a.qovJacobמַקַּ֥לH4731 · maq.qelrodלִבְנֶ֛הH3839 · liv.nehpoplarלַ֖חH3892 · lachfreshוְל֣וּזH3869 · luzalmondוְעֶרְמ֑וֹןH6196 · ar.monplane treeוַיְפַצֵּ֤לH6478 · pa.tsalto peelבָּהֵן֙H9039 · henthemפְּצָל֣וֹתH6479 · pe.tsa.lahstripeלְבָנ֔וֹתH3836 · la.vanwhiteמַחְשֹׂף֙H4286 · mach.sophexposingהַלָּבָ֔ןH3836 · la.vanwhiteאֲשֶׁ֖רH834 · a.sherwhichעַל־H5921 · aluponהַמַּקְלֽוֹת׃H4731 · maq.qelrod
Cross-references
Ezekiel 31:8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.Genesis 31:9-13Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.
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