Genesis 30:39 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 30:39

37 Now ^aJacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods.

38 And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink.

39 So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

40 Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

41 And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock conceived, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

42 But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s.

Verse Comparison: Genesis 30:39

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American Standard Version
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

Amplified® Bible
The flocks bred {and} conceived in sight of the rods and brought forth lambs {and} kids streaked, speckled, and spotted.

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

Darby English Version
And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

Good News Bible
So when the goats bred in front of the branches, they produced young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

King James Version
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.

New American Standard Bible
So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

New International Version
they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

New King James Version
So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

Revised Standard Version
the flocks bred in front of the rods and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

Young's Literal Translation
and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-straked, speckled, and spotted ones.

New English Translation
When the sheep mated¹ in front of the branches, they² gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

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