Genesis 30:38-43 ▼

38 And he set the rods that he had peeled in the channels, in the watering troughs, where the flock came to drink—before the flock—and they conceived when they came to drink.

39 And the flock conceived before the rods, and the flock brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted ones.

40 And Jacob separated the lambs, and he set the face of the flock toward the striped, and all the brown in the flock of Laban. And he set for himself flocks by themselves, and he did not set them with the flock of Laban.

41 And it came to pass whenever the strong of the flock conceived, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the flock in the channels, that they might conceive in front of the ro ds.

42 And the flock that were feeble, he did not put them in. So the feeble ones were to Laban, and the strong ones to Jacob.

43 And the man burst forth greatly, greatly, and he had to him many flocks, and maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.