Genesis 30:39
Modern Translations
New International Version
they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

New Living Translation
And when they mated in front of the white-streaked branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

English Standard Version
the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

Berean Study Bible
they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

New American Standard Bible
So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks delivered striped, speckled, and spotted offspring.

NASB 1995
So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

NASB 1977
So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

Amplified Bible
So the flocks mated and conceived by the branches, and the flocks gave birth to streaked, speckled, and spotted offspring.

Christian Standard Bible
The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young.

Contemporary English Version
in front of the branches, and their young were spotted and speckled.

Good News Translation
So when the goats bred in front of the branches, they produced young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
they mated in front of the branches. Then they gave birth to young that were striped, speckled, or spotted.

International Standard Version
When the flocks mated in front of the branches, they would bear offspring that were striped, speckled, or spotted.

NET Bible
When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

New King James Version
So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

King James 2000 Bible
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth flocks striped, speckled, and spotted.

New Heart English Bible
the flocks bred in front of the branches, and the flocks brought bore streaked, speckled, and spotted.

World English Bible
The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

American King James Version
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

American Standard Version
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

A Faithful Version
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted offspring.

Darby Bible Translation
And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

English Revised Version
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And the sheepe were in heate before the rods, and afterward brought forth yong of partie colour, and with small and great spots.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And the sheepe conceaued before the roddes, & brought foorth lambes ryngstraked, spotted, and partie.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
So the flockes conceaued ouer ye staues, and brought forth speckelde, spotted and partye coloured.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And the shepe coceaued before the staues and brought forth straked spotted and partie.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock bears striped, speckled, and spotted ones.

Young's Literal Translation
and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted ones.

Smith's Literal Translation
And the sheep shall conceive at the rods, and shall bring forth sheep banded and speckled and patched.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And it came to pass that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and speckled.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And it happened that, in the very heat of joining together, the sheep looked upon the branches, and they bore the blemished and the variegated, those speckled with diverse color.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the flock conceived lambs before the rods and the flock gave birth to white spotted forehead and spotted.

Lamsa Bible
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth lambs that were speckled and spotted.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So the cattle conceived at the rods, and the cattle brought forth young speckled, and streaked and spotted with ash-coloured spots.
















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