Genesis 30:41 (WEB)
Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive among the rods;
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“Just as Jacob, again, was not the creator of the colors in the flocks, because he placed the various colored rods for the several mothers, as they drank, to look at in conceiving.” — editor's note: Gen. xxx. 41
Read the whole comment“…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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Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.8.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.8.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.8.