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He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
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Commentators explain the practical details of Jacob's strategy. He placed peeled, multi-colored rods directly in the watering troughs where the flocks gathered. As one scholar clarifies, these were standard, fixed troughs common at wells, not modern gutters. The rods were positioned to be in the animals' line of sight precisely when they were ready to conceive.
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Genesis
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18th Century
Presbyterian
19th Century
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THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks , &c.] Opposite them, in the view of them: in the g…
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