Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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. Context Jacob Prospers…37And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane-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. 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.… Cross References Genesis 30:37 And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane-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. Genesis 30:39 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. Genesis 30:41 So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them. Lexicon Then he setוַיַּצֵּ֗ג (way·yaṣ·ṣêḡ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3322: To place permanently the peeled פִּצֵּ֔ל (piṣ·ṣêl) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 6478: To peel branches הַמַּקְלוֹת֙ (ham·maq·lō·wṯ) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 4731: A shoot, stick in the watering הַמָּ֑יִם (ham·mā·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen troughs בְּשִֽׁקֲת֣וֹת (bə·ši·qă·ṯō·wṯ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct Strong's Hebrew 8268: Watering trough in front of לְנֹ֣כַח (lə·nō·ḵaḥ) Preposition-l Strong's Hebrew 5227: The front part, opposite, in front of, forward, in behalf of the flocks הַצֹּ֤אן (haṣ·ṣōn) Article | Noun - common singular Strong's Hebrew 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock coming in תָּבֹ֨אןָ (tā·ḇō·nā) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go to drink. לִשְׁתּוֹת֙ (liš·tō·wṯ) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's Hebrew 8354: To imbibe So when the flocks הַצֹּ֔אן (haṣ·ṣōn) Article | Noun - common singular Strong's Hebrew 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock were in heat וַיֵּחַ֖מְנָה (way·yê·ḥam·nāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 3179: To be hot, to conceive and came בְּבֹאָ֥ן (bə·ḇō·’ān) Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go to drink, לִשְׁתּֽוֹת׃ (liš·tō·wṯ) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's Hebrew 8354: To imbibe Additional Translations 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,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. 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. And he laid the rods which he had peeled, in the hollows of the watering-troughs, that whensoever the cattle should come to drink, as they should have come to drink before the rods, the cattle might conceive at the rods. And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flock, in the troughs at the watering-places where the flock came to drink, and they were ardent when they came to drink. 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. And he set the rods, which he had peeled, 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. 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. 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; Jump to Previous Ardent Banded Branches Bred Conceive Conceived Directly Drink Drinking-Places Flock Flocks Front Gutters Mated Opposite Peeled Pilled Placed Rods Runnels Sticks Troughs Water Watering Watering-Troughs YoungJump to Next Ardent Banded Branches Bred Conceive Conceived Directly Drink Drinking-Places Flock Flocks Front Gutters Mated Opposite Peeled Pilled Placed Rods Runnels Sticks Troughs Water Watering Watering-Troughs YoungExternal Links Genesis 30:38 NIVGenesis 30:38 NLT Genesis 30:38 ESV Genesis 30:38 NASB Genesis 30:38 ASV Genesis 30:38 Bible Apps Genesis 30:38 Biblia Paralela Genesis 30:38 Chinese Bible Genesis 30:38 French Bible Genesis 30:38 German Bible Alphabetical: all and be branches came directly drink even flocks front gutters had he heat in mated of peeled placed rods set so that the Then they to troughs watering were when where which would OT Law: Genesis 30:38 He set the rods which he had (Gen. 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