Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, 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.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the flocks mated by the branches, so the flocks bore streaked, 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 rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. And they conceived when they came to drink. 39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted. 40 And 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 herds apart, and did not put them near Laban's flock.
Cross References
Genesis 31:9-12
Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Genesis 31:38
These twenty years I have been with thee, thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and I have not eaten the rams of thy flocks.
Genesis 31:40
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Genesis 31:42
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now thou would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night.
Exodus 12:35-36
And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment.