37 Then Jacob 1took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was 2in the rods.

38 He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they 1mated when they came to drink.

39 So the flocks 1mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

40 Jacob separated the lambs, and 1made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

41 Moreover, whenever the 1stronger of the flock 2were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might 3mate by the rods;

42 but when the flock was feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the 1stronger Jacob’s.

43 So athe man 1became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys.