Thomson(i)
35 And that very day he separated the goats which were speckled and spotted, both male and female, and every one among the lambs which was grizly and every one in which there was a mixture of white, and delivered them into the hands of his sons,
36 and set three days journey between them and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
37 And Jacob took him rods of the styrax and almond and plane-tree and peeled off the white bark, and twisting it round the green, the white which he peeled off appeared speckled.
38 And he placed the rods which he had peeled, in the watering troughs, in order that, when the flocks came to drink, they might engender at the rods, while they were drinking, with the rods in view.
39 So the flocks engendered at the rods and brought forth cattle streaked and spotted and ash coloured.
40 And when Jacob had separated the lambs and placed before the ewes a spotted ram and all that had spots among the lambs, then he kept the flocks which were for himself apart by themselves and did not mix them with the flocks of Laban.
41 And at the season when the sheep were engendering and conceiving, Jacob put the rods in the troughs before some, that they might engender before the rods;
42 but before others that had lambed he did not place them. Thus the indifferent became Laban's but the choicest were Jacob's.
43 And the man became very rich and had much cattle and herds and men servants and maid servants and camels and asses.
31 1 And Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons saying, Jacob hath taken all that belonged to our father, and with our father's substance he hath acquired all this glory.