Genesis 30:36-38

Revised Geneva Translation

³⁶ And he set three days journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob kept the rest of Laban’s sheep.

³⁷ Then Jacob took rods of green poplar, and of hazel, and of the chestnut tree, and peeled white strips in them, and made the white appear in the rods.

³⁸ Then he put the rods which he had peeled in the gutters and watering troughs where the sheep came to drink, so they could conceive (for they were in heat, when they came to drink).