Genesis 30:37
Genesis chapter 30 · verse 37 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And 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.
Context
v.36and he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
v.37This passage
v.38And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 31:8
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.
- Genesis 31:9
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.