Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the flocks mated by the branches, so the flocks bore streaked, speckled, and spotted.
New American Standard Bible
So the flocks
King James Version
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Holman Bible
The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young.
International Standard Version
When the flocks mated in front of the branches, they would bear offspring that were striped, speckled, or spotted.
A Conservative Version
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
American Standard Version
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
Amplified
So the flocks mated and conceived by the branches, and the flocks
Bible in Basic English
And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour.
Darby Translation
And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Julia Smith Translation
And the sheep shall conceive at the rods, and shall bring forth sheep banded and speckled and patched.
King James 2000
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth flocks striped, speckled, and spotted.
Modern King James verseion
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth striped cattle, speckled, and spotted.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the sheep conceived before the staves, and brought forth streaked, spotted and party.
NET Bible
When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
New Heart English Bible
The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
The Emphasized Bible
and the males of the flock were in heat before the rods, - so the flocks brought forth ring-straked, speckled, and spotted.
Webster
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.
World English Bible
The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Youngs Literal Translation
and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted ones.
Themes
Animals » Facts about breeding
Covetousness » Instances of » jacob » In defrauding laban of his flocks and herds
Craftiness » Instances of » In management of laban's flocks and herds
Dishonesty » Instances of » Jacob gains from laban's flocks by skillful manipulation
jacob » Sharp practice of, with the flocks and herds of laban
Laban » Jacob becomes his servant
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 30:39
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob's Prosperity
38 And he set the branches that he had peeled in front of the flocks, in the troughs [and] in the water containers. And they were in heat when they came to drink. 39 And the flocks mated by the branches, so the flocks bore streaked, speckled, and spotted. 40 And Jacob separated the lambs and turned the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark-colored in Laban's flocks. And he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with the flocks of Laban.
Cross References
Genesis 31:9-12
God has taken away your father's livestock and given [them] to me.
Genesis 31:38
These twenty years I [was] with you; your ewes and your female goats did not miscarry, and the rams of your flocks I did not eat.
Genesis 31:40
[There] I was, during the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, indeed now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my misery and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."
Exodus 12:35-36
And the {Israelites} did according to the word of Moses, and they asked from [the] Egyptians [for] objects of silver and objects of gold and [for] clothing.