36And sent them three days' journey away: and Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flock.
37Then Jacob took young branches of trees, cutting off the skin so that the white wood was seen in bands.
38And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get water; and they became with young when they came to the water.
39And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour.
40These lambs Jacob kept separate; and he put his flock in a place by themselves and not with Laban's flock.
41And whenever the stronger ones of the flock became with young, Jacob put the sticks in front of them in the drinking-places, so that they might become with young when they saw the sticks.
42But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.
