Genesis 30:39
Genesis 30:37-42 The Message (MSG)
But Jacob got fresh branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled the bark, leaving white stripes on them. He stuck the peeled branches in front of the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. When the flocks were in heat, they came to drink and mated in front of the streaked branches. Then they gave birth to young that were streaked or spotted or speckled. Jacob placed the ewes before the dark-colored animals of Laban. That way he got distinctive flocks for himself which he didn’t mix with Laban’s flocks. And when the sturdier animals were mating, Jacob placed branches at the troughs in view of the animals so that they mated in front of the branches. But he wouldn’t set up the branches before the feebler animals. That way the feeble animals went to Laban and the sturdy ones to Jacob.
Genesis 30:39 King James Version (KJV)
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis 30:39 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis 30:39 New Century Version (NCV)
so the flocks mated in front of the branches. Then the young that were born were streaked, speckled, or spotted.
Genesis 30:39 American Standard Version (ASV)
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis 30:39 New International Version (NIV)
they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
Genesis 30:39 New King James Version (NKJV)
So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis 30:39 Amplified Bible (AMP)
So the flocks mated and conceived by the branches, and the flocks gave birth to streaked, speckled, and spotted offspring.
Genesis 30:39 New Living Translation (NLT)
And when they mated in front of the white-streaked branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted.