Genesis 30:38 (WEB)
He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“…offspring of various colors, by placing variegated rods before them in the troughs of water for them to look at as they drank, at the time they had conceived.” — editor's note: Gen. xxx. 37–41
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Hippolytus of Rome
“But the Son derives shape from the Father after a mode ineffable, and unspeakable, and unchangeable; (that is,) in such a manner as Moses says that the colours of the conceived (kine) flowed from the rods which were fixed in the drinking-troughs.” — editor's note: Gen. xxx. 37–39.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.