Genesis 30:37-39

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³⁷ So Jacob cut ·green [fresh] ·branches [rods] from poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled off some of the bark so that the ·branches [rods] had white stripes on them. ³⁸ He put the ·branches [rods] in front of the flocks at the watering ·places [troughs]. When the animals came to drink, they ·also mated there [^Lwere in heat], ³⁹ so the flocks mated in front of the branches [rods]. Then the young that were born were streaked, speckled, or spotted [^Csince nothing in Jacob’s strategy would have produced this result, God must have done it].