41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

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41 Whenever the stronger females were in heat,(A) Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,(B)

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42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

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42 but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob.(A)

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