Génesis 30:38

38 Después puso esas ramas peladas en los bebederos donde los rebaños iban a tomar agua, porque era allí donde se apareaban;

Génesis 30:38 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 30:38

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:

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (hnmxy) "incalescebant", Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius; "ut incalescerent", Junius & Tremellius.

Génesis 30:38 In-Context

36 quienes se los llevaron a una distancia de tres días de camino del lugar donde estaba Jacob. Mientras tanto, Jacob se quedó y cuidó del resto del rebaño de Labán.

37 Luego Jacob tomó algunas ramas verdes de álamo, de almendro y de plátano oriental, y las peló quitándoles tiras de la corteza, de modo que quedaran con rayas blancas.

38 Después puso esas ramas peladas en los bebederos donde los rebaños iban a tomar agua, porque era allí donde se apareaban;

39 y cuando se apareaban frente a las ramas peladas con rayas blancas, tenían crías rayadas, manchadas y moteadas.

40 Jacob separaba esos corderos del rebaño de Labán. En la época de celo, los ponía frente a los animales de Labán que fueran rayados o negros. Así es como él aumentaba su propio rebaño en lugar de incrementar el de Labán.