Genesis 30:36-38

New Catholic Bible

³⁶ and he determined that there should be a distance of a three days’ journey by camel from Jacob’s flock. Jacob cared for the rest of Laban’s flock.

³⁷ But Jacob took fresh shoots of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and he made white^[a] stripes in them by peeling the bark back down to the white core of the shoots. ³⁸ He then took the shoots from which he had peeled the bark and he placed them in the channels, that is, in the watering troughs where the animals came to drink. They were placed where the animals could see them, and the animals mated when they came to drink.