Genesis 30:38

Genesis chapter 30 · verse 38 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And 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.

Context

v.37And 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.

v.38This passage

v.39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.