Genesis 30:38
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What does Genesis 30:38 mean?
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the
flocks,
&c.] Opposite them, in the view of them: in the gutters
in the watering troughs, when the flocks came to
drink;
that is, in places of water, where troughs or vessels were made,
into which the water ran convenient for the cattle to drink out
of; and here he placed his party coloured rods right over against
the flocks: that they should conceive when they came to
drink;
as it was most likely they should when they were together at the
water, and had refreshed themselves with it; and being "heated"
F17, as the word signifies, with a
desire of copulation, might conceive in sight of the above rods;
which were set to move upon their imagination at the time of
their conception, in order to produce cattle of different
colours; to which no doubt he was directed of God, and it had,
through his blessing, the wished for success, as follows:
F17 (hnmxy) "incalescebant", Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius; "ut incalescerent", Junius & Tremellius.
