Genesis 30:39

And the flockes conceiued before the rods, and brought forth cattell ringstraked, speckled and spotted.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
- American Standard Version (1901)

And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour.
- Basic English Bible

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

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

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.
- Douay-Rheims Bible

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
- English Revised Version

The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
- World English Bible

Wesley's Notes for Genesis 30:39

30:37 Here is Jacob's policy to make his bargain more advantageous to himself than it was likely to be: and if he had not taken some course to help himself, it would have been an ill bargain indeed; which he knew Laban would never have considered, who did not consult any one's interest but his own. Now Jacob's contrivances were, He set pilled sticks before the cattle where they were watered, that looking much at those unusual party - coloured sticks, by the power of imagination, they might bring forth young ones in like manner party - coloured. Probably this custom was commonly used by the shepherds of Canaan, who coveted to have their cattle of this motly colour. When he began to have a flock of ring - straked and brown, he contrived to set them first, and to put the faces of the rest towards them, with the same design as he did the former. Whether this was honest policy, or no, may admit of a question. Read #Ge 31:7 |- 16, and the question is resolved.