Genesis 30:41
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 30:41 King James Version (KJV)
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.
Genesis 30:41 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Moreover, whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might mate by the rods
Genesis 30:41 New Century Version (NCV)
When the stronger animals in the flock were mating, Jacob put the branches before their eyes so they would mate near the branches.
Genesis 30:41 American Standard Version (ASV)
And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods
Genesis 30:41 New International Version (NIV)
Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches
Genesis 30:41 New King James Version (NKJV)
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.
Genesis 30:41 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Furthermore, whenever the stronger [animals] of the flocks were breeding, Jacob would place the branches in the sight of the flock in the watering troughs, so that they would mate and conceive among the branches
Genesis 30:41 New Living Translation (NLT)
Whenever the stronger females were ready to mate, Jacob would place the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of them. Then they would mate in front of the branches.