◄ Genesis 30:39 ►
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Good News Translation
So when the goats bred in front of the branches, they produced young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

New Revised Standard Version
the flocks bred in front of the rods, and so the flocks produced young that were striped, speckled, and spotted.

Contemporary English Version
in front of the branches, and their young were spotted and speckled.

New American Bible
the goats mated by the shoots, and so they gave birth to streaked, speckled and spotted young.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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.

brought forth.

Genesis 31:9-12,38,40,42 And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me. . . .

Exodus 12:35,36 And the children of Israel did as Moses had commanded: and they asked of the Egyptians vessels of silver and gold, and very much raiment. . . .

Context
Jacob Prospers
…38And 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. 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.40And 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.…
Cross References
Genesis 30:38
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.

Genesis 30:40
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.

Genesis 31:8
If at any time, he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white one for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.

Genesis 31:10
For after the time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep, that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.

Genesis 31:12
And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.

Genesis 30:38
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