Genesis 30:41-43

Modern English Version

⁴¹ Whenever the stronger sheep mated, Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the troughs, so that they might mate among the rods. ⁴² But when the livestock were feeble, he did not put them in. So the weaker were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s. ⁴³ The man became exceedingly prosperous and had many sheep and female servants and male servants and camels and donkeys.