Genesis 30:36-38

Good News Translation

³⁶ and then went away from Jacob with this flock as far as he could travel in three days. Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flocks.

³⁷ Jacob got green branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees and stripped off some of the bark so that the branches had white stripes on them. ³⁸ He placed these branches in front of the flocks at their drinking troughs. He put them there, because the animals mated when they came to drink.