Genesis 30:39
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.
In other versions
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
ASV
And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour.
BBE
And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
DBY
The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
WEB
and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-straked, speckled, and spotted ones.
YLT
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle striped with bands, speckled, and spotted.
ENG
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.
WBT
they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
BSB
In context
37And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
38And 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.
39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.
40And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ring-streaked, 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.
41And 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.
