Genesis 30:36
King James VersionSource notes
“And he set three days journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.”
Context
33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
34And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
35And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave into the hand of his sons.
36And he set three days journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which in the rods.
38And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.