Genesis 30:37-41

Genesis 30:37-41

[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.