Genesis 30:36-38
1599 Geneva Bible
36 And he set three days journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob kept the rest of Laban’s sheep.
37 ¶ Then Jacob [a]took rods of green poplar, and of hazel, and of the chestnut tree, and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear in the rods.
38 Then he put the rods, which he had pilled, in the gutters and watering troughs, when the sheep came to drink, before the sheep: (for they were in heat, when they came to drink.)
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- Genesis 30:37 Jacob herein used no deceit: for it was God’s commandment as he declareth in Gen. 31:9, 11.
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