Genesis 30:37–43

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

³⁸And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the trough, that is, in the watering channels, where the flocks came to drink; and they ¹mated when they came to drink.

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

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

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

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

⁴³So ^athe man ^bspread out exceedingly and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys.