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Genesis 30:39

What does Genesis 30:39 mean?

A plain-English look at Genesis 30:39 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted ones.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And it came to pass, that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and speckled.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

Context

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.

v.39This passage

v.40And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban’s flock.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 31:40

    Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

  • Genesis 31:38

    These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.

  • Genesis 31:42

    Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

  • Genesis 31:9

    Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

  • Exodus 12:35

    And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:

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