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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 30, Verse 37

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And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
King James Version
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.
American Standard Version
And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
New English Translation
But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible.
World English Bible
Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks 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.
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And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
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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.
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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.
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But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
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And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
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And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that [was] our father's; and of [that] which [was] our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
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And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it [was] not toward him as before.
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And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
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And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,