Genesis 30:38

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,”

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BSBPD

“Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and setteth up the rods which he hath peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (when the flock cometh in to drink), over-against the flock, that they may conceive in their coming in to drink;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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