KJV King James Version
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.
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Genesis 30:38
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
WEB World English Bible
He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
ASV American Standard Version
And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and setteth up the rods which he hath peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (when the flock cometh in to drink), over-against the flock, that they may conceive in their coming in to drink;
Surrounding context — Genesis 30
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.
41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
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וַיַּצֵּ֗גH3322 · ya.tsagto setאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַמַּקְלוֹת֙H4731 · maq.qelrodאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichפִּצֵּ֔לH6478 · pa.tsalto peelבָּרֳהָטִ֖יםH7298 · ra.hattroughבְּשִֽׁקֲת֣וֹתH8268 · sho.qettroughהַמָּ֑יִםH4325 · ma.yimwaterאֲשֶׁר֩H834 · a.sherwhichתָּבֹ֨אןָH935 · boto come (in): comeהַצֹּ֤אןH6629 · tsonflockלִשְׁתּוֹת֙H8354 · sha.tahto drinkלְנֹ֣כַחH5227 · no.khachbeforeהַצֹּ֔אןH6629 · tsonflockוַיֵּחַ֖מְנָהH3179 · ya.chamto conceiveבְּבֹאָ֥ןH935 · boto come (in): comeלִשְׁתּֽוֹת׃H8354 · sha.tahto drink
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