Genesis 30:39

In 11 translations

BSB

they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

KJV

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

WEB

The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

ASV

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

LSV

and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock bears striped, speckled, and spotted ones.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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.

GNV

And the sheepe were in heate before the rods, and afterward brought forth yong of partie colour, and with small and great spots.

JPS

And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

LXXE

So the cattle conceived at the rods, and the cattle brought forth young speckled, and streaked and spotted with ash-coloured spots.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַיֶּחֱמ֥וּ הַצֹּ֖אן אֶל־הַמַּקְל֑וֹת וַתֵּלַ֣דְןָ הַצֹּ֔אן עֲקֻדִּ֥ים נְקֻדִּ֖ים וּטְלֻאִֽים׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐνεκίσσων τὰ πρόβατα εἰς τὰς ῥάβδους· καὶ ἔτικτον τὰ πρόβατα διάλευκα καὶ ποικίλα καὶ σποδοειδῆ ῥαντά.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Genesis 31:9–12Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me. When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females. In that dream the angel…
• Genesis 31:40As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
• Exodus 12:35–36Furthermore, the Israelites acted on Moses’ word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing. And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their…
• Genesis 31:38I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.
• Genesis 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night…

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