36 And he put a journey of three days between him and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the remainder of Laban’s flock.
37 Then Jacob took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled white strips on them, exposing the white which was on the branches.
38 And he set the branches that he had peeled in front of the flocks, in the troughs and in the water containers. And they were in heat when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks mated by the branches, so the flocks bore streaked, speckled, and spotted.
40 And Jacob separated the lambs and turned the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark-colored in Laban’s flocks. And he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with the flocks of Laban.
41 And whenever any of the stronger of the flocks were in heat, Jacob put the branches in full view of the flock in the troughs that they might mate among the branches.
42 But with the more feeble of the flock he would not put them there. So the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger were Jacob’s.